This isn't just an inert lump of machinery.

I remember him as a large, inert lump who took all my mother's time and attention.

The frank was still there, looking like an inert lump of flesh only vaguely molded into a hum an old form.

The setting was a leaf-strewn landscape in which an apparently inert lump gradually came alive.

It was an inert lump of metal, literally dead on its feet.

The eighth planet was much like the first one, an inert lump of rock floating in space.

Even a nova bomb was just an inert lump inside the field.

She still saw that magnificent figure crumpling in death, one instant so vital and alert, the next an inert lump of clay.

He didn't need an inert lump of female baggage to tell him whether he was right or wrong.

"I'm not thinking anything,"Heather said, her mind having turned into an inert lump.