How to Use inertia in a Sentence

inertia

noun

• He blames governmental inertia for the holdup.
• After 10 years in an unsatisfying job she overcame her inertia and went back to school.
• Now, the club appears to be paying the price for that inertia.
  — Joshua Law, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Start up inertia is the amount of pressure a fish must overcome to get the drag moving.
  — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
• The force of inertia keeps my mind there, even though my body is somewhere else.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• The last thing that parents have to battle is their own inertia.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2020
• Usually, the longer the nap, the more sleep inertia there is to overcome.
  — Steven Bender, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• All the inertia that has hit reigning champions in the past.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2018
• Have the protests created enough inertia to ensure that the right thing is done?
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
• The old guard have a force that may be just as powerful: inertia.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• And yet, your letter has a whiff of helpless inertia about it.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
• 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
• Concerns of ride and space are addressed with inertia and sheer size.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Reels have what is known as start-up inertia or how easily the drag will kick in.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
• Plans and hopes have their own inertia, and canceling things is a pain.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Part of the challenge simply lies with the enormous inertia passwords have built up.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• Even the best intentions get bogged down by inertia and red tape.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• This is less a pricing war a more pricing inertia driven by fear.
  — Eamonn Forde, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Was the void a monument not so much to ugliness, but to inertia?
  — Lance Warren, Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
• As the motors fight against the car's inertia, the noise cavitates your eardrums.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2021
• 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
• That means that any new player will have to overcome a lot of industry inertia.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
• There’s too much cultural inertia not to at this point.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2020
• One sign of inertia: failing to help people locked out of their accounts.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• And his law of inertia allowed for Earth itself to rotate.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• This troubling matter was brought up with Fox five weeks ago but was met with inertia.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• Now, researchers have put a number on the high value of customer inertia.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Lockdown felt like quicksand — an inertia that led to a frenzied effort to restart the engine of my life.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024