Example sentences for: inertia

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

  • ("I paid for that microphone" probably came from a Spencer Tracy political comedy; his faith in an invulnerable "Star Wars" nuclear shield perhaps came from the "inertia projector" portrayed in a 1940 movie in which he starred.)

  • Rice told us she took Clarke's memo as a warning not to get dragged down by bureaucratic inertia.

  • When you tried to help herGet out of the car or get from the car to the doorOr across the apartment house hall to the elevatorThere was a new sense of heavinessOr of inertia in the body.

  • !" The only problem I have is that it's not breaking down nearly fast enough, due to vested interests, institutional inertia, and lots of uncertainty about the new models of wealth creation that will replace the industrial leviathan.

  • Neglecting the inertia term for the ligament, a balance of forces requires that the bone stress σ B ( t ) be equal to the ligament stress σ L ( t ) for constant area.


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