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Originally Posted by Alexander Linden

Um no... the sentence is not implying that they are sentient...

But only a living creature can hide, as hide is an active verb and presupposes an action done by the thing doing the hiding. A person can hide, an animal can hide, but an object cannot hide itself. Now if they had said "lie unused," that would make sense, since "lie" is passive.

:3 ohh the vagaries of English...