inanimate

Example Sentences

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I had loved my phone, as much as anyone could love an inanimate object, and I’d had a panicked thought that maybe I wouldn’t get strange texts with a new phone.

From Literature

He always humors me when I name inanimate objects.

From Literature

Rice cakes join a long list of inanimate objects that time-poor young Chinese have jokingly adopted for low-maintenance companionship in recent years, ranging from mango pits, to rocks, to cardboard dogs.

From Barron's

Stella's Gingerbread house plushie is an "Amuseable", a line of toys with tiny faces modelled on inanimate objects from toilet rolls to boiled eggs.

From BBC

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?

From The Wall Street Journal