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.
• 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
• Concerns of ride and space are addressed with inertia and sheer size.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
• Even the best intentions get bogged down by inertia and red tape.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Part of the challenge simply lies with the enormous inertia passwords have built up.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• There is a kind of inertia, now, produced by the mere weight of all of these projects, which seemed poised to deliver us somewhere else.
  — Vogue, 6 June 2019
• There’s a similar bulge on the opposite side of the planet due to inertia of the water.
  — Brian McNoldy, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2021
• Short-term gains help break the inertia and help fund a long-term business case, so starting small is a good way to kick-start a program.
  — Gooty Agraharam, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Overcoming the inertia of legacy tools to build a future-proof system is crucial.
  — Shelli Brunswick, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• In the face of fear, anxiety, or sometimes even the familiar comfort of praise that comes with winning, there’s an inherent sense of inertia, or even the impulse to go faster, get bigger, play harder, to quell the creeping feelings of doubt.
  — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024