inanimate
Example Sentences
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Rice cakes join a long list of inanimate objects that time-poor young Chinese have jokingly adopted for low-maintenance companionship in recent years, ranging from mango pits, to rocks, to cardboard dogs.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
The tin was only an inanimate object; but in reframing its meaning, she has reopened her heart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.
From Salon • May 28, 2025
Driven or driverless, the car is the most animated of inanimate objects, sometimes literally a cartoon, with a voice, a personality, a name.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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