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
We could not sit inactively under this decree of annihilation.
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
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 Margaret Horton Potter
Yet in this short interval, when that will lay inactively in abeyance, he suffered.
From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie
