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
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
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
We could not sit inactively under this decree of annihilation.
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
