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
I have known fear in my time—the fear of the night, of tumultuous sea, of shot-ploughed space to be traversed inactively and slowly, so my assurance is no braggadocio, but the simple truth.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
In the one case the faculties appealed to are actively occupied with the subject presented; in the other they are inactively occupied with it, and the attention is continually drawn away by more attractive thoughts.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
We’ll have to sit inactively from this moment on.
From The Mind Master by Arthur J. Burks
