How to use "inert" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "inert" in popular movie and book plots

  • Supergirl fails to reach the missile before it explodes; it has no effect, as Lena previously rendered the virus inert after double-crossing Lillian.  - Medusa (Supergirl)
  • Max starts to pursue him, but found Martin's dead body, inert in the sand.  - L'Orphelin de Perdide
  • She blackmails one of the technicians into giving her access to the body by threatening to release a security video of him having sex with one of the inert hosts.  - Contrapasso (Westworld)
  • Leo and Fred find and retrieve Max's inert body.  - Series 1, Episode 7 (Humans)
  • This face "of inert despair" is seen by Wolf as linked to "the appalling misery of so many of his fellow Londoners".  - Wolf Solent
  • She laughs off his threat but later calls him telling him she has committed a sin while standing beside the inert body of her husband who appears to be dead.  - YOLO (Scandal)
  • In Glasgow, a motorcyclist (Jeremy McWilliams) retrieves an inert young woman (Lynsey Taylor Mackay) from the roadside and places her in the back of a van, where a naked woman (Scarlett Johansson) dons her clothes.  - Under the Skin (2013 film)
  • One day billions of small black cubes appear around the globe, but they appear to be inert and invulnerable.  - The Power of Three (Doctor Who)
  • mr Van Helsing takes the Gang back to his museum and shows them various jewelry and a glass-faced casket containing the inert body of Valdronya, a centuries-old vampire.  - Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
  • He rendered it inert before defecting, with the key to reactivating it lying inside Justus' bloodstreamSavic had hoped that if Kratek had the inert base of the virus and the ISA had the trigger (in Justus's bloodstream) then neither side would be able to use the virus.  - Killzone: Mercenary
  • Bilkis wanted to have a glimpse of her dead brother, wanted to touch his apparently cold, inert body to feel the warmth of a loving brother, the heat of the fire inside him which no killer could extinguish.  - Guerrilla (2011 film)
  • Superman attempts to free his allies, only for them to discover the inert body of Doomsday, as well as three separate clones - each with a different powerset designed to specifically make them capable of eliminating the Superman they were sent after.  - Reign of Doomsday
  • But his hubris proved to be his downfall, as T'Challa admits that he may be right, before tapping into Doom's armor to connect to all the vibranium in the world and using it render all Wakandan vibranium inert and useless.  - Doomwar
  • As the wreckage is inspected, Master Sergeant Sam Harper, one of the burnt bodies within, springs to life and kills a sergeant and a major, and returns to an inert state after muttering, "Don't be afraid, it's only friendly fire.  - Uncle Sam (film)
  • Aboard the Ulysses, Sarrano tricks Grayson and Ishi into arming what was actually an inert bomb, and leaves.  - Bulletstorm
  • The bodies of the two figures remain inert while their left eyes open in turn and stare for lengthy periods.  - Imagination Dead Imagine
  • The yellow battery destroys the green battery, rendering all the Green Lantern Corps' power rings inert and causing death by asphyxiation of countless Green Lanterns who were in space at the time of their rings' failure.  - Green Lantern: First Flight
  • The Man drags The Flesh's inert body (which vomits and defecates repeatedly) to a room he has readied for slaughter.  - Cannibal (2006 film)
  • He sits for long, inert periods besides an empty canvas.  - The Orchid Gardener
  • As a youth he was sent to work on a highly automated dairy farm in the state of Vermont, although the "cows" were basically inert masses of tissue stacked in a barn and hooked up to tubes.  - Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
  • In her thoughts Janine portrays a negative image of her husband who she sees as inert and tied up with his work, having relinquished the passions and ambitions that he possessed as a youth when they met.  - The Adulterous Woman
  • However, Sir Humphrey is stating the government's concern that the propanol will contain "metadioxin", an inert compound—unlike the toxic dioxin.  - The Greasy Pole
  • Nigel and several others experiment with the computer's neural hook-up, and leave fundamentally changed by it, while the computer becomes inert and unable to reveal any more about its creators.  - In the Ocean of Night
  • With the tower completed, it becomes invulnerable to all known forms of human weaponry and GDI is left with no option but to leave it standing under close observation, as it is completely inert following the destruction of the control node entity.  - Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
  • The paranoid Roch does, however, keep to himself the secret of the detonator or "Deflagrator", a liquid without which the explosive is merely an inert powder.  - Facing the Flag
  • The group breaks a window for Jordan to squeeze through, and he drives the vehicle into the midst of the inert phoners.  - Cell (novel)
  • While Abigail fights to live, Hutch hammers three nails one by one into the inert body.  - Stay Alive
  • Two of the stories are set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe: "The Sandman, the Tinman, and the BettyB" takes place in the vicinity of Pell Station and concerns the crew of space prospectors and miners and their encounter with an inert rogue missile fired by an unknown warship in a decades-ago war; "The Scapegoat" sees an unusual truce formed between the Union, the Alliance and Earth to deal with the Elves, a technologically inferior alien race that insists on launching suicide attacks on any human ship in sight.  - The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh
  • While the man was occupied, the protagonists installed a tracking device (removed from an inert crawler mine) in his helicopter, thereby tracking him back to the COTUC headquarters.  - Soldiers of Anarchy
  • Fallon, sensing he's being misled, does the opposite of what he is told, thus rendering the device successfully inert in the film's climactic scene, the rest of the bomb-disposal unit swiftly follow his example, the ship and its passengers being saved.  - Juggernaut (1974 film)
  • The team stows aboard a tanker truck containing a shipment of inert nanofluid that is being delivered to the White Whale by AIM.  - Livewires (comics)
  • He sees an inert mutant being placed on a stand and then brought to life.  - The Power of the Daleks
  • Nuclear Winter steals Time Master's inert body and uses it to steal nuclear missiles from the Cuban Missile Crisis in an effort to start a nuclear war between the United States and the USSR.  - Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich
  • Finding the android's seemingly inert head, Luthor claims it with the intent of disassembling it to learn its technology.  - Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
  • He was then provided with an inert Igla by undercover Russian agents, and arrested in Newark, New Jersey, when making the delivery to the undercover US agent.  - 9K38 Igla
  • in spite of you and Jane", and her husband faints as she continues to circle the room, stepping over his inert body each time she passes.  - The Yellow Wallpaper
  • Leaving his inert body, the two drive through town, but finally yield to the urge to tell someone about Hoag's body.  - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  • Barbara and the Doctor give new orders to the Robomen to destroy the Daleks, and with the help of the Robomen, Wells and Tyler lead the human slaves in rebellion, destroying the inert Daleks and escaping the mine.  - The Dalek Invasion of Earth
  • Following the rally, Tetsuo's power begins to contort his physical body, causing it to absorb surrounding objects; he later learns that his abuse of his powers have caused them to expand beyond the confines of his body, giving him the ability to transmute inert matter into flesh and integrate it into his physical form.  - Akira (manga)
  • He had infected the grain with a virus that becomes an inert material in an organism's bloodstream which eventually prevents the organism from taking in enough nourishment to survive.  - The Trouble with Tribbles
  • All of Corwin's siblings believe that guns can never be brought to the medieval world of Amber, as all gunpowders seem inert there.  - The Guns of Avalon
  • Envious, Klogg manages to steal Hoborg's crown, rendering Hoborg inert in the process, and the crown's energies disfigure Klogg.  - The Neverhood

Example sentences for "inert" in interesting articles

  • Two hectare (five-acre) buildings housing large sewer-pipe-looking structures that contain not soil but inert materials like vermiculite.  - Discover the Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups
  • But these days it is inert helium gas that is used to float these monsters of the sky, rather than highly flammable hydrogen - and many aviation experts are now saying the "second coming" of the airship has arrived, with a rush of rival projects in Europe and North America.Part of the new-found attraction of craft like the Airlander is that they use roughly a third less fuel than a cargo jet and in the future could be fitted with vast arrays of solar panels.  - Airlander 10: World's largest aircraft prepares to take to the skies
  • Two hectare (five-acre) buildings housing large sewer-pipe-looking structures that contain not soil but inert materials like vermiculite.  - Discover the Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups
  • There is no such thing as a mountain; there is no such thing as inert rock.  - What it means to believe that “real” trees no longer exist (2016)
  • dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate—even regenerate itself—thus behaving more like a living 'super'-organism than an inert material."In as yet unpublished research the archaeologists Eduardo Neves, of the University of São Paulo; Michael Heckenberger, of the University of Florida; and their colleagues examined terra preta in the upper Xingu, a huge southern tributary of the Amazon.  - 1491 (2002)
  • dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate—even regenerate itself—thus behaving more like a living 'super'-organism than an inert material."In as yet unpublished research the archaeologists Eduardo Neves, of the University of São Paulo; Michael Heckenberger, of the University of Florida; and their colleagues examined terra preta in the upper Xingu, a huge southern tributary of the Amazon.  - Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002)
  • The less rugged or less clever seek the cover of enemy obstacles moored along the upper half of the beach and are knocked off by machine-gun fire. Within seven minutes after the ramps drop, Able Company is inert and leaderless.  - The Real Story: First Wave at Omaha Beach (1960)
  • These inert objects, now in her hand, were once buried deep in the flanks of living creatures.  - Natural History Museums Are Teeming with Undiscovered Species

Meaning of "inert" in English

  • slow and apathetic
    Examples
    - a sluggish worker
    - a mind grown torpid in old age
  • unable to move or resist motion
  • having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
    Example
    - an indifferent chemical in a reaction

Meaning of "inert" in Hindi

  • जड ( Jad, zad)
  • सुस्त ( Sust)
  • गतिदीन ( Gatidin, gatideen)
  • अचर ( Achar)
  • आलसी ( Aalasi, aalasee)
  • अक्रिय ( Akriy)
  • अगतिक ( Agatik)

Synonyms of "inert"

  • indifferent
  • torpid
  • sluggish
  • soggy
  • neutral

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