Ease is the most that can be hoped from a sedentary andunactive habit; ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure.
And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and entire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.
The English money was to the Austrians, as a shower to a field, where all the vegetative powers are kept unactive by a long continuance of drought.
Achilles with unactive fury glows, And gives to passion what to Greece he owes.
While useless words consume the unactive hours, No wonder Troy so long resists our powers.
In the Description of Paradise, the Poet has observed Aristotle's Rule of lavishing all the Ornaments of Diction on the weak unactive Parts of the Fable, which are not supported by the Beauty of Sentiments and Characters.
Another Argument for busying good Women in Works of Fancy, is, because it takes them off from Scandal, the usual Attendant of Tea-Tables, and all other unactive Scenes of Life.
How will they maintain the dominion of the sea, by lying unactive in our harbours?
Are they to lie unactive within the sound of the battle, and wait for their enemies on this side the cape?
Under unactive and jealous princes the Roman legates seldom dared to push the advantages they had gained far enough to produce a dangerous reputation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unactive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: inactive; motionless; quiescent; sedentary; static; stationary
