Nonliving used in a sentence

Nonliving in a sentence as an adjective

A new study from MIT describes “living materials” that combine bacterial cells with nonliving materials that can conduct electricity and emit different colors of light.

It used to be the case that life was considered as some sort of fluid stuff which was added to the Elements to turn the 'inorganic' material into 'organic' material -- the low-level chemical distinction between 'nonliving' and 'living'.

That toddler has already processed lots of visual image data, examples of objects, nonliving and living, animals, mammals, etc. Don't you think that constitutes a large, important dataset for the problem of elephant recognition?