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How to use inoperative in a sentence

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Don't worry about shutting off the fuel and mags on the inoperative engine at these low altitudes.
One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts.
The train was more crowded than I expected, so in order to get a window seat, I moved into the inoperative cafe car.
Some of them we will only be able to play three times before they come inoperative.
The fire hydrants, which are sometimes found to be inoperative during the fire hazards in the town, should be revamped.
The clerk appeared a minute later and said that the car wash was inoperative, because they were cleaning it.
My kids love them, naturally enough, and I can't get away with sitting them on an inoperative machine any more.
One organization replaced another after virtually ignoring food shortages, and electrical power and public utilities remained inoperative.
One or more pipes or the canister itself could be blocked or damaged, or maybe one of the valves in the system is inoperative.
This last resort could either solve the problem or render the cell phone completely inoperative.
Mechanics placarded the autopilot as inoperative, though they did not pull or safety the circuit breaker.
In the inoperative position, the refuelling probe is retracted into the nose of the fuselage in front of the pilot's cabin.
This resulted in buildings being non-functional, inoperative or even condemned.
The oil-soaked ramp, which had been rendered inoperative when small-arms fire damaged the helicopter's utility hydraulics, was stuck in the down position.
Having a completely inoperative disk drive is really starting to bug me.
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.
The long list of violations committed by these carriers ranged from inoperative horns to cracked frames.
I am on the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, a committee which is incidentally inoperative at the moment.
If there is a regulation that is not enabled by the act itself, that regulation is illegal and inoperative and will not stand up in the courts.
This Act, however, is inoperative by virtue of article 308 of the Personal Status Act.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Somehow, the signal wire had been bypassed, to keep the operators from knowing the drone control was inoperative.
If these sections do not bind the Crown they are meaningless and inoperative.
The strike was made inoperative for the time being by the lockout of the employers.
If it stands still in the air its planes are inoperative, and it falls.
If the mainspring is bad or inoperative, break it, and choose another.
The only things left, then, were the inoperative ideas of States.
Any manual controls would be inoperative by the pilot in any case.
It would therefore be destitute of a precise meaning, and inoperative from its uncertainty.
India-based, state-owned, Central Bank of India has announced a new move to clear inoperative accounts.
Like the previous legislation, however, the act of 1872 was inoperative.
Afghanistan's industries were left inoperative due to decades of civil strife and war.
As a craft stands on the ground, its planes are inoperative.
They were saluted with a volley of musketry, all but inoperative.
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