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
Yet in this short interval, when that will lay inactively in abeyance, he suffered.
From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
I resolved, rather than wait inactively for death with that weapon useless, to employ the most reckless means of escape.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson
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 Brownell, Gertrude Hall
