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Example sentences for "inoperative"

Lexicographically close words:
inoculators; inodorous; inoffensive; inoffensively; inoperable; inopportune; inopportunely; inordinate; inordinately; inorganic
  1. Its design is to render the election laws inoperative and a dead letter during the next fiscal year.

  2. It was understood that those laws would be strictly enforced against all priests and friars, though left generally inoperative for lay people; and, with certain exceptions, mentioned by Dr.

  3. Some printed forms contained stipulations not applicable, and became inoperative on the face of them: they described hundreds of acres in excess, but stated that those beyond the king's instructions, should be taken as not granted at all.

  4. The make-and-break interrupter, if there is one in circuit, should of course be made inoperative by screwing up the contact point against the spring.

  5. Again we have a picture of four men walking with their inoperative helicopters moving in several different ways as the breeze and the men's motions cause them to move slightly.

  6. This last statement would pretty well describe the action of the blades of an inoperative helicopter being carried forward in a straight line.

  7. When a light breeze moves the blades of an inoperative helicopter the blades not only turn, but they change their pitch and plane in a most random manner.

  8. Heredity cannot, of course, be excluded, but the tendency to hepatic derangement can be rendered inoperative by an abstemious life.

  9. Quinia is inoperative in the cure of these troublesome and often fatal complications.

  10. Inoperative as this remained, it at least had the advantage of supplying to the Spanish historians an unbroken line of inquisitors-general to be catalogued.

  11. But whatever the motive of action by Parliament, the ensuing legislation was in the main inoperative or ineffective.

  12. And, of course, if it were to be overwhelmed with a great quantity of blood, it would perish, while if it were to be entirely deprived of blood it would remain inoperative and would not turn into a nature.

  13. The conclusion, then, must be that in disseminating the incendiary literature, the postal agents acted properly, and that the state laws were inoperative as applied to them.

  14. Similarly, the state laws which provide punishment for working on Sunday are inoperative as applied to postal employees (in discharge of their duty imposed by federal regulations) even though the local statute may make no express exception.

  15. Because of the rather large body of water contained in any type of generator, there is always danger of its freezing and rendering the device inoperative unless placed in a temperature above the freezing point of the water.

  16. The Attorney-General has made his libel preventive measure a poor weak inoperative thing, ridiculous, and unconciliating.

  17. However, like many other such, it is productive of extravagance and loss, and is practically inoperative as a barrier to the practice of imposition.

  18. Abstractly, the law of ideo-motor action is true; but in the concrete our fields of consciousness are always so complex that the inhibiting margin keeps the centre inoperative most of the time.

  19. A strong and urgent motor idea in the focus may be neutralized and made inoperative by the presence of the very faintest contradictory idea in the margin.

  20. Such a strange construction would render constitutional provisions of the highest importance completely inoperative and void.


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