sedentary
IPA: sˈɛdʌntɛri
noun
- a sedentary person
adjective
- Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
- (anthropology, of a human population) Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
- (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.
- (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
- (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
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Examples of "sedentary" in Sentences
- And as long as we remain sedentary and warm, they’ll stay.
- Zú‘l-Ka’adah, the sedentary, is the rest time of the year, when fighting is forbidden and Zu’l-Hijjah explains itself as the pilgrimage-month.
- It migrates over lage distances for a so- called sedentary species, needs riparian areas and insects for its chicks, and above all needs SAGE, a major part of its diet.
- Both cutties and churchwardens were smoked, but the latter of course were not adapted for persons engaged in active pursuits and were essentially of what I may call a sedentary nature.
- "Conan," he thought he heard a voice, though as he heard his name the sedentary mist came to life, swirling around the trees and statues and over his bare chest, sending a chill down his spine.
- In general it appears that a man or a woman whose occupation is what we call sedentary, who is without vigorous exercise and does but little hard muscular work, needs much less than the man at hard manual labor, and that the brain worker needs comparatively little of carbohydrates or fats.
- In the United States, a study involving 43,757 male health professionals some of whom were described as sedentary or overweight, or were smokers, or both found that those consuming more than 25 grams of fiber per day had a 36 percent lower risk of developing heart disease than those who consumed less than 15 grams daily.
- Charlene Burgeson, executive director of the National Association for Sport & Physical Education, a group of physical education and sports professionals, says, This study reinforces the importance of all youth being physically active, spending minimal time in sedentary activities such as TV watching, and maintaining a healthy weight.
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