inactively
Example Sentences
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The committee recommended expanding the program to “all but the most inactively traded” stocks, ETFs and related derivatives.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 19, 2011
We're not abandoning the shuttle, but we're not going to wait inactively either.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, tired of standing, and undesirous of spending the whole morning inactively, he turned and looked around him, up the rocky height of the temple-crowned acropolis.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton
All else being equal, he had a little rather strengthen Mime's chances of getting the Ring, through Siegfried, than inactively see it fall to the inveterate enemy, Alberich.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
Night put a stop to hostilities, and the next day, until late in the afternoon, we passed inactively.
From The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson by Moore, Edward A.
