How to Use inertia in a Sentence

inertia

noun
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  • He blames governmental inertia for the holdup.
  • After 10 years in an unsatisfying job she overcame her inertia and went back to school.
  • This brings us back to snow-globing your brain—which means doing something that shifts you from inertia to action.
    — Anna Borges, SELF, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The #metoo disclosures were a global keening, which rent a hole in the collective inertia.
    — Monitor Editors, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Next to him, a group of young women are debating where to go next, struggling between ambition and inertia.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • This has been a book about the next step in superheroics, and as with any step or leap forward, there are always people who fear the change and who give in to the inertia.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Institutional inertia and other hurdles must not get in the way.
    — Mekela Panditharatne and Shanze Hasan, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
  • However, 60-minute naps may lead to significant sleep inertia.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
  • My mother suffered from severe recurring depression for 30 years, episodes that floored her to the point of near-catatonic inertia.
    — Anthea Rowan, idahostatesman, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Less defensible reasons are mere inertia or, even worse, the belief on the part of a few judges that cumbersome formal language is needed to give jurors a sense of the majesty of the law.
    — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Culture is more effective than law at enforcing good behavior—and abuse nearly always trades on a culture of ignorance, credulity, and inertia.
    — James Scott, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2018
  • In order to make that investment, executives and users need to see a concrete payoff or existential risk that outweighs the powerful forces of inertia and fear of change.
    — Ravi Kumar S, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • If he is forced to scale back his plans, economists warn that France risks slipping back into inertia, hamstringing its growth prospects compared with other European countries.
    — William Horobin, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • To make the thing go, the researchers relied on the inertia, not of the fluid, but of the beads themselves.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021
  • Now, the club appears to be paying the price for that inertia.
    — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The only thing standing in the way of progress was decades of NBA inertia.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Usually, the longer the nap, the more sleep inertia there is to overcome.
    — Steven Bender, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The force of inertia keeps my mind there, even though my body is somewhere else.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Start up inertia is the amount of pressure a fish must overcome to get the drag moving.
    — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
  • While columnist Abe Kwok warns that the inertia could last for years.
    — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
  • As the motors fight against the car's inertia, the noise cavitates your eardrums.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The old guard have a force that may be just as powerful: inertia.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The last thing that parents have to battle is their own inertia.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2020
  • And yet, your letter has a whiff of helpless inertia about it.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • Just like the carnival ride, the water is pressed up against the bucket in a fight with inertia.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2013
  • Reels have what is known as start-up inertia or how easily the drag will kick in.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
  • All the inertia that has hit reigning champions in the past.
    — SI.com, 27 June 2018
  • That process can go over a month, so there’s a good amount of time to capitalize on the inertia of the market.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Have the protests created enough inertia to ensure that the right thing is done?
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
  • Part of the work of the next few decades is to imagine and build a better future rather than letting inertia reign.
    — David Biello, New York Times, 24 May 2017

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