How to Use inaction in a Sentence

inaction

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  • We must consider the consequences of continued inaction.
  • The protesters criticized the administration's inaction on environmental issues.
  • What is not clear to me is what the cost of inaction is.
    — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The time to act is now – before the cost of inaction becomes too great to bear.
    — Matthew Emma, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
  • If the stakes of the 2024 election are as great as the party says, there’s no excuse for inaction.
    — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • Be part of the problem through inaction or part of the solution through change.
    — Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And all the while, people inside are bearing the cost of inaction.
    — Alleen Brown, The New Republic, 1 July 2023
  • On the one hand, the harm of inaction is real and growing every year.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The rebellion was, in large part, the product of Putin’s inaction.
    — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But as the death count in city jails rose to 14 this year, the board’s inaction was conspicuous.
    — New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Women's-rights groups disparaged the court for the inaction that allowed the statute to take effect.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But what has gone unnoticed is the fact that the courts also pay the price for Congress’ inaction.
    — Michael Bobelian, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But one thing that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to agree on is that inaction is not an option.
    — Farnoush Amiri and Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
  • The cost of inaction is much greater than that of overreaction.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Both teams stopped play at the six-minute mark of Saturday’s game to reflect and protest league inaction.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The novel won wide praise for creatively taking on the issue of climate change and our inaction in the face of it.
    — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • During years of inaction through the painful rebuild, the most insignificant of moves were all there was.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Through inaction in Congress and less action than in the past from the courts, what's happening in states -- both blue and red -- is likely to stand.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Scene by scene, Linda becomes more and more aware of the consequences of her inaction.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • But when her actions and inactions are not aligned with mine, or, in my view, supportive of me as a Blak person.
    — Bizzi Lavelle, refinery29.com, 22 June 2023
  • That’s a bargain relative to the costs of inaction, but much of it will be borne by governments.
    — Mark Gongloff, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • But now, the timid Democrats through their inaction have convinced the American people that they cannot be trusted to lead or speak the truth.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Ohio, however, is worth studying for the power of a Trump action—and that of his inaction.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 May 2022
  • Instead, most of the news about climate action in recent months has been about inaction.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The risks of inaction are already apparent in Gaza City.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Da Silva even threatened to sue the platform for inaction.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The silence and inaction of so many does nothing to support our front-line workers who choose to show up each and every day to do their jobs.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But my view is that inaction would be the greatest provocation.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But there have been opportunities over the past few years to go all-in, and at least part of their inaction is with Curry’s permission.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Key Takeaway Natural consequences are the outcomes that happen as a result of a person's actions or inactions, good or bad.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025

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