How to Use inaction in a Sentence

inaction

noun

• We must consider the consequences of continued inaction.
• The protesters criticized the administration's inaction on environmental issues.
• What is not clear to me is what the cost of inaction is.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• Be part of the problem through inaction or part of the solution through change.
  — Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
• And all the while, people inside are bearing the cost of inaction.
  — Alleen Brown, The New Republic, 1 July 2023
• The rebellion was, in large part, the product of Putin’s inaction.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• The cost of inaction is much greater than that of overreaction.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
• During years of inaction through the painful rebuild, the most insignificant of moves were all there was.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
• But when her actions and inactions are not aligned with mine, or, in my view, supportive of me as a Blak person.
  — Bizzi Lavelle, refinery29.com, 22 June 2023
• Instead, most of the news about climate action in recent months has been about inaction.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• Da Silva even threatened to sue the platform for inaction.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• For the most part, the candidates determined that the crisis is a result not of inaction on Biden’s part but on Congress’s.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
• But the program expired at the end of 2021, due to congressional inaction.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• The trial was believed to be the first in the nation against a police officer for inaction during a mass shooting.
  — Patricia Mazzei, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• After years of inaction, the United States had finally made a major dent in the poverty rate.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, Mayorkas said Wednesday there is a plan in place to deal with the surge in migration, but blamed the coming chaos on inaction by Congress.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 10 May 2023
• Democrats like to blame Republicans for their own inaction on reform, but that’s only part of the story.
  — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• No, said Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, who agreed the costs of inaction were too high.
  — Tony Romm, Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Tyler Pager, Jeff Stein, Rachel Siegel, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
• The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Police’s inaction and failure to act stunned and enraged people across the nation.
  — Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Short, medium, and long-term scenarios that highlight both the cost of action and inaction need to be presented.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• The armed forces’ inaction was a source of bitter disappointment to those on the other side of the political divide.
  — Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• And children paid the price for the inaction, suffering from the irreversible effects of lead exposure by the thousands.
  — Staff Reports, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
• The argument for realism in dealing with climate change is one of those calls for inaction.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
• In a statement, a White House spokesman pinned blame for the state of the immigration system on congressional inaction.
  — Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The monthly payments began in July 2021, and expired at the end of that year due to congressional inaction.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
• The price of inaction will be profound, both in terms of human suffering and health care expenditures.
  — Olivia Casey, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Congressional inaction has left the door open for the Biden administration to lead on the issue.
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• To be clear, Tessier-Lavigne’s inaction is a big problem worthy of sanction, as the report noted.
  — Ivan Oransky, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
• While politicians used to talk more about spending reform, their inaction on the issue is not a new phenomenon.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024