Living things, even technogenic ones, behave quite differently from inanimate matter.

The occasions of experience of the second grade involve just inanimate matter.

Could faith convert inanimate matter into a healing being?

Which was like waking up a stone, some dead lump of inanimate matter.

Would all other life forms and inanimate matter be able to put together a common intelligence adequate for the purpose?

Through his music, Orpheus had the power of charming not only living creatures but inanimate matter.

All had become accident, the chance involvement of inanimate matter.

In an era when inanimate matter could become an individual, they chose to cross the Turing boundary the other way.

But there is not any such thing as inanimate matter.

But there was nothing he could do about stupid pieces of sharp-edged, inanimate matter except try to avoid them.