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How To Use inoperative In A Sentence

• Only one phaser is inoperative, which means, offensively, the ship is almost totally effective, but defensively its lack of forward shielding makes the vessel incredibly vulnerable.
• This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
• The telephone's influence is so pervasive that only when things go wrong with the technology - for example, a thunderstorm renders it inoperative - do our problem of isolation becomes apparent.
• In the event that any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement shall be declared to be invalid or inoperative, all of the remaining terms and provisions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect.
• But this short and easy method with those who take their stand on coercion and illegality was scouted by the Radical M.P. He pointed out with the same lucidity and precision with which he would have stated a case to a leading counsel, the facts (first) that the right-of-way was not only claimed, but existed; (second) that the threatening notice was inoperative; (third) that an action lay against any person who attempted to deforce the passage of any individual; (fourth) that the road in question was the only way to kirk and market for a very considerable part of the strath, that therefore the right-of-way was inalienable; and Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
• Your insurance policy will become inoperative if your circumstances change.
• The fire hydrants, which are sometimes found to be inoperative during the fire hazards in the town, should be revamped.
• All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms., reply Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video — Without A Single Shot Of The Service
• Some later model Russian missiles have been recovered in anti-terrorist raids, and some of these have become inoperative due to age or poor handling.
• This resulted in buildings being non-functional, inoperative or even condemned.