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

However, he was not the boy to face a calamity inactively.

From Andy the Acrobat by Harkness, Peter T.

We could not sit inactively under this decree of annihilation.

From Ireland Since Parnell by Sheehan, D. D. (Daniel Desmond)

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