| 1. | All distances of time, all inanimate forms. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate things. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | A gift, a faculty, if it had not been departed, was suspended and inanimate within me. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | The inanimate objects were not changed but the living things had altered past recognition. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | I fancy the popular expectation of a heap of charred corpses was disappointed at this inanimate bulk. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 7. | I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 8. | "I have carried on a life-long feud with inanimate things," a pure Cerebral friend remarked to us recently. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 9. | Noirtier's eye still retained its inanimate expression. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | A senseless corse inanimated clay. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | Now find thee cold, inanimated cla. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |