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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But the program expired at the end of 2021, due to congressional inaction.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• The trial was believed to be the first in the nation against a police officer for inaction during a mass shooting.
  — Patricia Mazzei, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• After years of inaction, the United States had finally made a major dent in the poverty rate.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2023
• Both are viral-video stunts that call attention to leaders’ inaction in the face of crisis and to Gen Z’s despair for the future.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• In effect, the Supreme Court’s inaction had decided the case for the current election cycle.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 23 May 2024
• They are met with a lack of urgency and inaction from law-enforcement.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Now comes the unexpected rebirth of Licorice Pizza after decades of inaction.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
• The cumulative effects of American inaction amount to self-injury.
  — Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024