Examples of inanimate

• Collections are 'typically inanimate', they occur 'readily in the plural, but when singular cannot contract plural concord with the verb'.

• Similarly, the existence of state class failed to show a significant difference between the two auxiliaries, both in the animate and the inanimate variant.

• For the existence of state class, both animate and inanimate subjects were tested.

• If the subject refers to an inanimate entity affecting a human direct object, the genitive is obligatory for the direct object.

• For inanimate matter, this protoconsciousness is something so simple and primitive that we would hardly recognize it as consciousness at all.

• We also noted that o-mano counts as inanimate.

• The vehicles represented inanimate objects, possessing wheels and more straight line contours.

• Participants judged whether a word referred to a living thing (an ' 'animate' ' entity) or to non-living thing (an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).