Sentences with 'sedentary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sedentary and other words derived from it.
• « Movement is an essential human condition: man is not born sedentary, but the living conditions that await him in modern cities, together with the lack of green spaces and the climate of exhaustion imposed by economic and work pressures, transform him into an inactive and indolent individual. »
• « According to some researchers, the invention of clay working would not have been isolated, but part of a more general 'revolution' in human change: along with improved techniques for working stone, there would have been a shift from nomadic to sedentary life, from an economy based on hunting and gathering, to cultivating the land and raising livestock. »
• « If you need an alarm clock or if you get sleepy when doing repetitive, sedentary or light work, such as driving a car or sitting through a lecture, try to sleep 30 to 90 minutes longer each night than usual. »
• « When people became sedentary they needed to build their dwellings. They learned how to build a house, how to find the best place to locate it, how to use certain materials, and so on. »