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Example sentences for "inertly"

Lexicographically close words:
inerrant; iners; inert; inertia; inertialess; inertness; inescapable; inescutcheon; inesse; inessential
  1. She walked slowly forward, her hands very cold, hanging inertly down, her lips pressed tightly together.

  2. She was sitting motionless, with her hands lying inertly in her lap.

  3. Choking and spluttering, his eyes streaming with water from the effects of the driving particles of hot ashes, Tressidar plunged into the darkness with his burden lying inertly across his back.

  4. At his feet lay a seaman; another was lying inertly across the body of the first.

  5. One hand strayed to his left cheekbone, hovered there tentatively, wandered to the bridge of his nose, and from there dropped inertly to the bed.

  6. Flung completely out of his bunk von Brockdorff-Giespert lay inertly upon the floor for nearly a couple of minutes.

  7. The next instant his feet gave way under him and he sank inertly upon the deck.

  8. The fellow's resistance collapsed, and he dropped inertly at the little corporal's feet.

  9. He wriggled over the parapet and dropped inertly upon the fire-step.

  10. In order to reassure the little boy, Catherine took him to view the stuffed crocodile reposing inertly under its marble slab.

  11. Our English brook, after its uneventful childhood, made its stolid matter-of-fact way into an equally dull little river which crawled inertly along to its destiny somewhere down by the docks.

  12. Garboard was only just in time to save him from collapsing inertly upon the deck of the ship he had brought safely out of action.

  13. A few, stunned by the concussion, were lying inertly upon the deck.

  14. All he could do was to support himself by allowing his arms to hang inertly on the curve of the buoy.

  15. With a yell of pain the fellow bent his knees and reared his body, only to fall inertly upon the half-suffocated Digger.

  16. His work accomplished, he dropped inertly to the ground between the bodies of his greatest chums, and everything became a blank.

  17. He was up and staggering again, until, unable to withstand the strain, he rolled inertly upon the ground with his fingers gripping his throat.

  18. Then, unable to regain his bunk, he pitched inertly upon his face.

  19. The bowman, hit by a flying fragment of shell, had dropped inertly over the thwart.

  20. Had not Haynes grasped his comrade by the shoulders Webb would have dropped inertly from the balk of timber into the sea.

  21. She sat there listlessly; her pretty hands resting inertly on her knee, her beautiful face tinged with the setting sunlight; sat there thinking of him--Lord Averil.

  22. His grip relaxed from the wrists of his antagonist, and then all vigor seemed to vanish from his body, and he sank inertly to the floor.

  23. He leaned inertly forward, one hand resting upon his knee.

  24. The imitation Malacca cane descended with a dull thud upon the lad's head, and like a felled ox Vernon fell inertly upon the sodden grass.

  25. The old skipper, hit by a splinter of wood, fell inertly upon the bridge; but the next instant he staggered to his feet, bawling to the crew to get the hand-steering gear connected.

  26. Yes," he spoke eagerly, passionately, and she could feel the muscles in his tensed arms play like flexible steel as her hands dropped to rest inertly upon them.

  27. Her slender hands lay inertly quiet in her lap, holding an envelope.

  28. Lines had been passed through the chocks of each, sails had been hauled down, and both yachts rode inertly side by side.

  29. The two stood inertly for a while in the strange silence that seemed to fall upon everything after all the bustle of the departure.

  30. During his sickness he had grown into a habit of indolence, and he spent a great deal of his time lounging inertly thus upon the bench in the kitchen.

  31. A dull, latent acknowledgment of the absurdity of the sudden notion that had seized him lay inertly beneath the thought, but the thought itself had somehow seized upon him very closely, just as it had seized upon him the day before.

  32. Then a white mist swam before the subaltern's eyes, and, retaining sufficient presence of mind to place the hardly-won jars of water upon the ground, he stumbled inertly into the arms of the Rhodesian sergeant.

  33. Before twenty-four rounds had been let loose a man sprang three feet in the air, and fell inertly upon the ridge that had but imperfectly protected him.

  34. The Birwa's arms collapsed, he fell at full length upon the rounded mass of timber, and, slipping sideways, toppled inertly into the foaming torrent.

  35. Then with a sharp shudder the animal stretched herself and died, while the subaltern, utterly exhausted, lay inertly upon the ground, his rent sleeve stained with still spreading dark patches.

  36. He looked at her inertly thus, immobile as a statue and suddenly as though perceiving a strange woman, he released her roughly, amazed at himself.

  37. There was no motion to his body now, and his hands were hanging inertly open at his sides.

  38. Then her eyes went to Brent, occupying three chairs for himself and his legs, while one arm hung inertly to the ground and his head lolled back in childish abandon.

  39. Uncle Buzz turned to the driver and dropped a coin in that worthy gentleman's greasy palm as it lay inertly on the seat, beside him.

  40. The erysipelas extends rapidly, and generally terminates in suppuration and sloughing of the cellular substance, or, if inertly treated, in immediate gangrene of the parts.

  41. When the stricture is very tight, the patient cachectic and irregular in his mode of life, and the case injudiciously or inertly treated, sloughing takes place rapidly, or phagedenic ulceration occurs anterior to the stricture.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inertly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.