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
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 Gertrude Hall Brownell
The result was, that when the cavalry had discharged their carbines, and were still far off, we occasionally stood face to face, looking at each other inactively, not knowing what the next move might be.
From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
