How to Use inanimate in a Sentence

inanimate

adjective

• The key is to keep inanimate things in their proper place.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• But on the bright-ish side, an inanimate object can never leave them (that still feels dark).
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2022
• As the minutes pressed on, the gentle hum of the computer sounded dull and inanimate.
  — Aaron Peter, Wired, 15 Nov. 2020
• Yes, true, my device may be inanimate in the narrow technical sense of the term.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
• And if there aren’t enough animals in our lives, inanimate objects have been brought to life.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
• Sometimes, inanimate objects can be there for us in a way that people can’t.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 18 Dec. 2017
• Greg Dear Greg: Here's to Muffin, and all the other stuffed or inanimate friends who help their keepers to cope with life's challenges.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2020
• The fact that the virus can be viable on inanimate objects such as bedsheets also adds to concerns.
  — Naomi Thomas and Neeraj G. Patel, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
• The way that the sound bounces off of the other objects in the room can tell us whether the person is standing next to a living thing versus an inanimate object.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2021
• For inanimate objects, books have a tendency to eat a lot.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• The snowy skin, meanwhile, is an anomaly in the boundary between the body of a living man and his inanimate surroundings.
  — Jeremy England, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• Not even inanimate objects can bear to watch Chatwood pitch.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
• In fact, the only eyes that seemed to observe much of anything at the Sicilian Lotus were inanimate.
  — Time, 12 Dec. 2022
• Frasier, like Loveless, noticed how Cochran’s work was able to bring out the soul of inanimate objects and people alike.
  — John Canale, cleveland, 23 May 2022
• Putting a mask on these inanimate objects shifted them to a new context: the present, rather than the historical past.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2020
• Or perhaps there is some inanimate object in the bushes that approximates the shape of a dog.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• That duty drew him to the end point of the modern reverie: the fatal crash, which fuses the animate and the inanimate, compressing bone, skin, and steel.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 July 2021
• That way, no animals or inanimate objects will be harmed in the making of your special treats.
  — Cathryne Keller, SELF, 7 Dec. 2022
• Even on inanimate objects, oral can be one of the most rewarding and intimate parts of getting it on.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• Now, over the past two months, videos showing Borzois, and inanimate objects that look like them, have taken over TikTok.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2023
• As in the first Toy Story, inanimate objects are often the most impressive.
  — Joyce Slaton, WIRED, 22 Nov. 1999
• The lyre was infused with magic, powerful enough to charm people and even inanimate objects like trees, streams, and rocks.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Bellatine has an even more uncanny gift: the ability to bring inanimate objects to life with the touch of her hands.
  — Wendy Smith, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the dialogue is voiced too, including the inanimate objects that speak, such as Harry’s necktie.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• And sometimes, at least on Earth, living things chisel inanimate things.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 8 Mar. 2021
• Jean Paul Gaultier’s first designs were made on an inanimate teddy bear.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2024
• The tardigrades will arrive on the station in a frozen inanimate state, then be thawed out, revived and grown in a special bioculture system.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 May 2021
• Anna describe her first kiss as alienlike and tells Josie there’s no shame in making out with inanimate objects.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• Certain icons, both living and inanimate, came up frequently: the ferry, the Verrazzano, the Wu-Tang Clan.
  — Joe Delessio, Curbed, 28 Sep. 2021
• The crew pretends to be inanimate whenever the boy is present despite the social hierarchy wherein Woody, their playmate's favorite toy, presides at the top.
  — Devin Nealy, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024