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.
• While columnist Abe Kwok warns that the inertia could last for years.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
• The inertia wheel quickly kicked in and arrested the fall as advertised.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 July 2018
• Its inertia reel eliminates friction within the device and makes the task of giving and taking slack effortless.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 July 2018
• But most linger on, shielded by bureaucratic inertia, lack of resources or sympathetic judges.
  — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 26 June 2018
• The result is political inertia until a new leader emerges with new energy and ideas to forge a new majority.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018
• There was one person, notably, who resisted those inertias: Helen herself.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
• Most advocacy groups are trying to be patient, chalking the delays up to the inevitable inertia of a giant bureaucracy forced to change.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• Most advocacy groups are trying to be patient, chalking up the delays to the inevitable inertia of a giant bureaucracy forced to change.
  — Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• The inertia brings about the kind of symbolic transformation common to the collection: Their faces begin to lose shape and slip from their bodies.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• Doing so means pushing against elements of human nature, the greed of wealthy incumbents, and the sheer inertia of anachronistic mechanisms of governance.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• With the free agency of LeBron James looming over the entire franchise, the Cavs chose activity over inertia.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 29 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• As creatures of habit, humans get entrenched in ways that gain inertia over time.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024