Inertia

//ɪnˈɝ.ʃə//

"Inertia" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Inertia is an important governing law.

Never underestimate the power of inertia.

In the U.S., businesses say they also encounter regulatory obstacles, which some put down to bureaucratic inertia, others to lack of imaginative thinking.

Of two balls of the same size (one made of iron, the other of wood) falling from the top of a tower, the iron one, because it has a greater gravitational charge (being heavier), is attracted with greater force, but, on the other hand, precisely because it has more mass (inertia), it offers greater resistance to falling. The result: both touch the ground at the same time, as Galileo demonstrated.

I live by inertia.

Inertia is inherent in any material object.

He continued to live as if by inertia.

She continued to live as if by inertia.

Inertia kills you in this world.

Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.

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Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.

City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

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