How to Use inertia in a Sentence

inertia

noun

• He blames governmental inertia for the holdup.
• After 10 years in an unsatisfying job she overcame her inertia and went back to school.
• Breaking the hold of inertia, in politics as in physics, requires an outside force.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
• Its courts’ reputation has been built over many years, and the forces of inertia stop people from changing contract terms.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Often, because of inertia or stakeholders protecting the status quo, a spark is needed to get people to look beyond just what’s next on their to-do list.
  — Arianna Huffington, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
• While this lowers the relative peak pressure, the Accord’s turbo spools quicker because there’s less inertia.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2017
• Smaller turbos mean less rotational inertia, allowing these tiny blowers to spool up more quickly than most current setups.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 18 Oct. 2017
• In South-East Asia, by contrast, cronyism and inertia are consequences of an economy that is unfair to those at the bottom.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• To make the thing go, the researchers relied on the inertia, not of the fluid, but of the beads themselves.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021
• Now, the club appears to be paying the price for that inertia.
  — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• The only thing standing in the way of progress was decades of NBA inertia.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Usually, the longer the nap, the more sleep inertia there is to overcome.
  — Steven Bender, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• The force of inertia keeps my mind there, even though my body is somewhere else.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• Start up inertia is the amount of pressure a fish must overcome to get the drag moving.
  — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
• While columnist Abe Kwok warns that the inertia could last for years.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
• As the motors fight against the car's inertia, the noise cavitates your eardrums.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2021
• The old guard have a force that may be just as powerful: inertia.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• The last thing that parents have to battle is their own inertia.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2020
• And yet, your letter has a whiff of helpless inertia about it.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
• Just like the carnival ride, the water is pressed up against the bucket in a fight with inertia.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2013
• Reels have what is known as start-up inertia or how easily the drag will kick in.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
• All the inertia that has hit reigning champions in the past.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2018
• That process can go over a month, so there’s a good amount of time to capitalize on the inertia of the market.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Have the protests created enough inertia to ensure that the right thing is done?
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
• Part of the work of the next few decades is to imagine and build a better future rather than letting inertia reign.
  — David Biello, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Plans and hopes have their own inertia, and canceling things is a pain.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2021
• The Burns & McDonnell engineers, each in their own way, pointed to the struggle with the inertia of the old and the demands of the new.
  — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The first two are gas-operated, and the SBE2 is an inertia gun.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 13 Apr. 2020
• Their days are naturally full of physical activity The people of this Sardinian Blue Zone have no use for a grueling morning workout followed by a day of inertia.
  — Raeleen D'agostino Mautner, Contributor, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
• Historical trends, though, show ideological optimism is seldom sufficient to break inertia, especially absent some dramatic intervention.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024