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Example sentences for: inanimate

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They were animists who revered the spirits they believed to be in the living things and inanimate objects around them.
--that, in the end, owes more to metaphysics (divining the essential natures of things as inanimate as software programs) than to reason.
Still life--the portrayal of familiar inanimate objects--is, as the name suggests, a paradoxical genre.
Malick's conception of consciousness distributes it among the animate and inanimate alike; almost every object is held up for rapturous contemplation.
But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.