inanimate
Example Sentences
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What to do with this inanimate object, whose newly visible rust spots Ms. Wilson began to equate with the cracks she had failed to discern in her marriage?
In literature, fantasies about the consequences of animating inanimate objects go back through “Frankenstein” all the way to Pygmalion and Prometheus.
From New York Times
They played H-O-R-S-E with footballs and inanimate objects, rifling passes off goal posts, tackling dummies and specified seats.
From Washington Post
We tackle every day in practice, but we tackle inanimate objects, not people.
From Washington Post
“I’m compulsively impolitic and tactless. … I can’t write about people, which is why I write about inanimate objects,” he told Interview magazine in 2014.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
