How to Use inaction in a Sentence

inaction

noun

• We must consider the consequences of continued inaction.
• The protesters criticized the administration's inaction on environmental issues.
• What is not clear to me is what the cost of inaction is.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• The time to act is now – before the cost of inaction becomes too great to bear.
  — Matthew Emma, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
• If the stakes of the 2024 election are as great as the party says, there’s no excuse for inaction.
  — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 1 July 2024
• Be part of the problem through inaction or part of the solution through change.
  — Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
• And all the while, people inside are bearing the cost of inaction.
  — Alleen Brown, The New Republic, 1 July 2023
• On the one hand, the harm of inaction is real and growing every year.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The rebellion was, in large part, the product of Putin’s inaction.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• But what has gone unnoticed is the fact that the courts also pay the price for Congress’ inaction.
  — Michael Bobelian, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• But one thing that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to agree on is that inaction is not an option.
  — Farnoush Amiri and Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• The cost of inaction is much greater than that of overreaction.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
• The novel won wide praise for creatively taking on the issue of climate change and our inaction in the face of it.
  — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• During years of inaction through the painful rebuild, the most insignificant of moves were all there was.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
• Through inaction in Congress and less action than in the past from the courts, what's happening in states -- both blue and red -- is likely to stand.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• Scene by scene, Linda becomes more and more aware of the consequences of her inaction.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• But when her actions and inactions are not aligned with mine, or, in my view, supportive of me as a Blak person.
  — Bizzi Lavelle, refinery29.com, 22 June 2023
• That’s a bargain relative to the costs of inaction, but much of it will be borne by governments.
  — Mark Gongloff, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• But now, the timid Democrats through their inaction have convinced the American people that they cannot be trusted to lead or speak the truth.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
• Ohio, however, is worth studying for the power of a Trump action—and that of his inaction.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 May 2022
• Instead, most of the news about climate action in recent months has been about inaction.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• The risks of inaction are already apparent in Gaza City.
  — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Da Silva even threatened to sue the platform for inaction.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• The silence and inaction of so many does nothing to support our front-line workers who choose to show up each and every day to do their jobs.
  — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022
• But my view is that inaction would be the greatest provocation.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022
• For the most part, the candidates determined that the crisis is a result not of inaction on Biden’s part but on Congress’s.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
• After years of delays and inaction at the top of the state, New York’s adult-use cannabis bill is now on its way to implementation.
  — Andrew Ward, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
• This was not an easy decision, but inaction could have forced closure of the entire hotel leading to the loss of all jobs.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• But the program expired at the end of 2021, due to congressional inaction.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• Franklin expressed that the Quorum Court members are aware of their duties and the potential consequences of inaction.
  — Eplunus Colvin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025