| 1. | Vandemeyer lay inert and motionless as before. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | He looked across at the inert figure on the bed. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | As it sank he became less and less frenzied, and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | Marius, who was, perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | Will you ever forget the almost human perversity with which that stove and that trunk resisted him or how amusing it looked to see a grown man outwitted at every turn by an inert mas. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | The action of pleasure had come upon all at once, and we sank in an inert mass on those below us. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 8. | Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | "Only this time it was no longer an inert body, without feeling, that the villain had to deal with. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |