INACTIVE in a Sentence

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For INACTIVE, below is one of 25 sentences:
As to the arrest of John Mitton, the valet, it was a council of despair as an alternative to absolute inaction.

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 Meanings and Examples of INACTIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inactive
 a.  not working; inoperative
 a.  having no chemical or biological effect
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  I mean young Nicholas Rostov, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain inactive and has left the university to join the army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
2  Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
3  Prince Andrew's regiment was among the reserves which till after one o'clock were stationed inactive behind Semenovsk, under heavy artillery fire.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
4  But such distractions lasted only a moment, and for eight hours the men had been inactive, without food, in constant fear of death, and their pale and gloomy faces grew ever paler and gloomier.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
5  During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
6  The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
7  He was active and observing, I dreamy and inactive.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  Let not a single worker remain inactive here.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
10  But to be waiting so long in inaction, and waiting only for evil, had been dreadful.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
11  As to the arrest of John Mitton, the valet, it was a council of despair as an alternative to absolute inaction.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
12  Condemned to inaction and a state of constant restlessness and suspense, I rowed about in my boat, and waited, waited, waited, as I best could.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVII
13  But this sudden outbreaking of temper as quickly subsided in the still and sullen restraint they most affected in their moments of inaction.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
14  At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to watch the cars careering homeward and through this channel of poverty and inaction the Continent sped its wealth and industry.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
15  But Ivanhoe was like the war-horse of that sublime passage, glowing with impatience at his inactivity, and with his ardent desire to mingle in the affray of which these sounds were the introduction.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence:
1  The area has a large, but politically inactive population.
2  The brain cells are inactive during sleep.
3  He certainly was not politically inactive.
4  It's bad for your health to be physically inactive.
5  The West's inaction has put millions of people at risk of starvation.
6  She has bouts of hard work followed by long periods of inactivity.