Example sentences for: inanimate

How can you use “inanimate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This force supposedly makes stars "self-organize" into galaxies, and inanimate molecules, into living cells.

  • --that, in the end, owes more to metaphysics (divining the essential natures of things as inanimate as software programs) than to reason.

  • 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.

  • Malick's conception of consciousness distributes it among the animate and inanimate alike; almost every object is held up for rapturous contemplation.

  • Still life--the portrayal of familiar inanimate objects--is, as the name suggests, a paradoxical genre.


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