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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The tone is one of admiring dispassion, the approach at times discreet to the point of inertia.
  — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• This troubling matter was brought up with Fox five weeks ago but was met with inertia.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• And the wrongfully convicted, like Chris Tapp, now had a chance to overcome the inertia of the appeals process.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Was the void a monument not so much to ugliness, but to inertia?
  — Lance Warren, Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
• And his law of inertia allowed for Earth itself to rotate.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Into the collective inertia raced Sun Devils guard Frankie Collins to grab the ball and go in for an easy putback.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 May 2024