5 sentences with 'inert'

Example sentences and phrases with the word inert and other words derived from it.

« Napoleon even attempted suicide, drinking the poison he had carried for years in case he was captured, but the poison was mostly inert because of its age and simply made him ill (after his recovery, his self-confidence quickly returned). »
« The newborn dolphin was inert. In fact, it had died, and we, so sorry for our ruined walk, so annoyed by our soaked clothes and the discomfort of a few hours, suddenly knew how trivial our discomfort was compared to what we now saw. Around the forlorn mother swam the other members of the dolphin pod, guarding her in case a shark approached. »
« A few hours ago she found her little daughter inert, a victim of cot death syndrome. »
« Hidden among the inert rocks and pale surface of the Moon is helium-3, an energy panacea that could electrify future lunar bases and also the Earth with a great advantage: it produces no acid rain, no greenhouse effect, no solid waste and its radioactivity would be very low. »
« In the darkness of the archaic period, living matter differentiated very slowly from inert matter. Today, at an incredibly faster rate, we are witnessing a not dissimilar birth; a life form may be emerging from the hitherto abiotic world of computation: the biochip. »
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