How to Use inactive in a Sentence

inactive

adjective

• Inactive people suffer higher rates of heart disease.
• Each of the groups is thought to be inactive at this time.
  — Kelsee Majette, The Week, 16 May 2022
• But he’s been inactive for much of the last three years.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
• Most of the time, the button would be grayed out and inactive.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
• The junior has been inactive in two of the last three weeks.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
• The source of the leak was also caused by an inactive Driscopipe 8000 stub.
  — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• He was taken in the fifth round of the 2020 draft and was inactive all season.
  — Tom Canavan, ajc, 1 Dec. 2021
• Ehlinger served as the backup the past three weeks with Foles inactive.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2022
• Melanocytes—the cells that make the skin pigment, melanin—are thought to be inactive in a Spitz nevus.
  — Emily Brown, Mph, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
• Since then, the front line has been at a stalemate; that doesn’t mean it’s been inactive.
  — Laura Kelly, The Hill, 31 May 2025
• Lewis has been a game-day inactive for the past nine contests.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 13 Feb. 2022
• In his first season with the team, Lazard was benched and inactive for the year’s final game.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
• Of those who got the inactive placebo, 43% died in the two-and-a-half-year time span of the study, but of those who received tafadamis, 30% died.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
• Yet the San Diego area has hardly been inactive on that front.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025
• He’s been inactive for the Chiefs’ three playoff games.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• But bots can be tricky to spot and are not always inactive.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• Gracie hadn’t just lost three fights in a row in the UFC, he’s also been inactive.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
• The state also collects idle well fees, which can run up to $1,500 a year for each inactive well.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Trey Sermon, a third-round pick out of Ohio State, was inactive.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2021
• Gagne said Jill's cell phone has not been active since that date, and that Nicholas' has been inactive since June 29, per the Globe.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2022
• Thursday, Davis was inactive for the 28th straight game.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• James was inactive for the game with a minor foot injury.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2023
• This also means that a few inches away from the screen, the cursor is inactive, as are the buttons.
  — PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• The malware appears to be inactive now that the websites are gone.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Apr. 2021
• De La Hoya didn’t want to be inactive for 12 months between fights.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• Robinson was in sweats on Friday and will be inactive for a fourth straight game.
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 7 Oct. 2022
• Players on reserve/PUP must be inactive for the first six weeks of the season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2021
• Zinc is needed to convert the inactive form of testosterone into the active form in the body.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Health, 25 July 2023
• In humans, p53 is inactive or mutated in about half of all cancers.
  — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2025
• The state Supreme Court still must approve Spolin’s disbarment, but his license will be inactive in the meantime, barring him from working as a lawyer.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025