Example sentences for: inanimate

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

  • Unfortunately, we don't have a clue how a tricorder might work, since life forms don't seem to have any observable property that distinguishes them from inanimate matter.

  • That's when she drops the article before some harmless inanimate object, lending it a kind of pseudohuman agency.

  • The time has come, as it does to all entities, animate and inanimate, to say goodby.

  • 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.

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


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