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How to use sedentary in a sentence

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Type 2 diabetes has exploded because of the increasing prevalence of both obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
This sedentary behaviour is apparently turning our kids into a race of slothful fatties who risk a reduced lifespan and other problems.
It was all down to yesterday's hard labour, of course, and sedentary activities.
We're using a traditional sedentary medium, the Internet, to get you off your keister to participate.
We've become sedentary, convenience foods fill our kitchens, and stress is a common denominator.
Considered to be the most sedentary of the woodswallows, it will move to coastal areas during droughts.
Because the lac insect is sedentary, densities on branches can become very high.
This could lead anyone to think that they are sedentary birds, resident in the same area throughout their lives.
Then I notice that in this sedentary position, the whole ensemble rides up around my waist.
The greater water turnover of running dogs may be attributable to higher respiratory and renal water losses than occur in sedentary dogs.
I mean, who wouldn't choose a talking cereal box over the sedentary and mute Rice Krispies?
The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history.
Walking is a many-sided pleasure and essential for those who lead a sedentary life.
Song sparrows are sedentary and defend territories in both breeding and non-breeding seasons.
While some animals are sedentary, such as barnacles and sponges, most are quite able to move around.
Along with larger portions of more fattening food, Americans have become increasingly sedentary over the last couple of decades.
Moderately active fat people have far lower mortality rates than do thin sedentary people, and the same death rates as thin active people.
The Governor said walking was essential for sedentary people to keep the system in trim.
In addition, 78 percent of Americans do not meet basic activity level recommendations and 25 percent are completely sedentary.
Compared with more sedentary people, athletes display greater skin perfusion for the same increase in core temperature.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Caddoan tribes were mostly agricultural and sedentary, and to-day they are distinguished by their industry and intelligence.
This is so, probably, because I'm a school teacher and sedentary in my habits.
The chough appears to be a sedentary species in all parts of its distribution.
A great cause of ill health is overuse of sugar in concentrated form, candy, etc., especially by the sedentary.
The usual causes of heartburn are excess in eating and drinking, the use of improper food, and sedentary habits.
Is subject to tonsillitis and a stubborn though not severe form of indigestion, induced by sedentary habits.
It ought not to be a difficult task, since that gentleman was naturally sedentary and little curious.
It is certain that sedentary, and within-door arts, and delicate manufactures, have, in their nature, a contrariety to a military disposition.
His wild outbursts are the result, I think, of his sedentary life.
His answer was, that he had been used to a sedentary employment.
Of meditative and sedentary habits, I enjoyed the extreme quiet.
I have, I confess, but indifferent skill in these sedentary arts.
I am well in health, spite of the forcedly sedentary life I lead.
The blood continued to pound in the sedentary temples, redly.
But his intellect, though it had lost its pristine vivacity in the benumbing years of sedentary exposure to the weather, lacked not independence or sanity.
At times he would tear off a small piece, and holding it between his paws, and retaining his sedentary position, would feed himself with it, after the fashion of a monkey.
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