Read full poem →Shall this be true
Of stocks and stones and mere inanimate clay,
And not in some sort also hold for us?
Dictionary Entry
Something that is not alive.
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Common Phrases
objects inanimatethings inanimateobject inanimatenature inanimate. inanimatematter inanimate
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Poetry examples for “inanimate”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →You might have dreamed their souls had gone
Away to things inanimate,
In such to live, in such to moan;
Read full poem →Nought heeding that our friendship was betrayed,
Friend not inanimate--though stocks and stones
There are, and many formed of flesh and bones.
Read full poem →All distances of place, however wide,
All distances of time—all inanimate forms,
All Souls—all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
Read full poem →in the country about Olney. He dwells on the rural sights and rural
sounds, taking first the inanimate sounds, then the animate. In muddy
winter weather he walks alone, finds a solitary cottage, and draws from