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Meanings of lay inert in English

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Usage of lay inert in English
1
Presently she let herself go and lay inert, greatly to her relief.
The Light of the Western Stars
2
He only knew it was inevitable-inevitablehowever long he lay inert.
The Prussian Officer
3
Susan, exhausted, sick, lay inert in the middle of the bed.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
4
For a long while she lay inert across the knees of her rescuer.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
5
I lay inert; I couldn't have moved if I wanted to.
Each Man Kills
6
It lay inert under an empty sky, its passivity strangely hostile.
Acts of faith
7
The paddle lay inert in her fingers, her head drooped.
The World for Sale, Volume 1.
8
The next instant he fell back again and lay inert.
The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
9
She lay inert against him, racked with the long shuddering sobs that shook her.
The Sheik: A Novel
10
It no longer struggled, but lay inert and without motion.
Half a Rogue
11
On his chest, Right lay inert, drugged into unnatural sleep.
Complete Books of Blood
12
Red forms lay inert upon the ground where they had been trampled, or stabbed.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
13
The dying woman, relieved by her first emesis, now lay inert, with closed eyes.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4
14
He looked toward the quarry where the driver lay inert.
Renaissance
15
Her skull smashed into the wainscoting and she lay inert.
Shift
16
She struggled in his arms and then lay inert.
Madcap
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