It has the sanction of common usage; and I consider it preferable to the word "superhuman," when applied to inanimate things or animals which are objects of worship.
He may be an alien or a slave; or animals or inanimate things may be offered to expiate the sins of men.
In common speech, even to this day, all men, both learned and unlearned, speak of inanimate things as if they had consciousness and intelligence.
In addition to the perceptions we have mentioned, animals have a perception of inanimate things, that is, of various bodies and phenomena of nature.
Nor do we only ascribe our own feelings to inanimate things, but we also invest them with the forms and members of the human body.
Hence animals generated from the corruption of inanimate things, or of plants, may have been generated then.
For no power of the soul is to be assigned for those things which are common to animate and to inanimate things.
The poets take the liberty ofpersonifying inanimate things.
However lucky we may be in other ways, if we have not this luck of inanimate things we have a right to complain.
The man who is unlucky to experience these things at least has the consolation of other people's sympathy; but the man who is the butt of inanimate things has no one's sympathy.
But with all his boasted superiority, he is often made the slave of inanimate things.
He is interested in inanimate things, especially in using them, and so he plays with his toys.
Roughly classified, the raw experience of this stage may be divided into the experience of the natural world of living things, the world of inanimate things, and the social world.
We learn from Gains that the same rule was applied to the torts of children or slaves, /7/ and there is some trace of it with regard to inanimate things.
We will now follow the history of that branch of the primitive notion which was least likely to survive,--the liability of inanimate things.
As late as the second century after Christ the traveller Pausanias observed with some surprise that they still sat in judgment oninanimate things in the Prytaneum.
Group is the general word for any gathering of a small number of objects, whether of persons, animals, or inanimate things.
When despite and in spite of are applied to inanimate things, it is with something of personification; "in spite of the storm" is said as if the storm had a hostile purpose to oppose the undertaking.
Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inanimate things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
