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?
There were “weird” puppets and “pretty” puppets and “scary” puppets, and the assembly gave the three-room apartment a sense of being super-populated with inanimate beings awaiting a sorcerer.
From New York Times
And usually, they’re starting off with perhaps animals, or inanimate objects, or compliant partners.
From Fox News
Even the inanimate remains can cause a shudder.
From Washington Times
That is not to imply we spend our days either fiddling with Bunsen burners and test tubes or composing odes and flinging gobs of paint at inanimate objects.
From New York Times
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