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Dormant
"Dormant" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Mt. Asama is now dormant.
In each of us there lies a dormant superhuman.
At the end of the sleep the dormant awakes.
Volcanoes can be active, dormant, or extinct.
Dormant volcanoes no longer produce eruptions, but might again sometime in the future.
Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano located in Tanzania.
The fire which seems extinguished is often dormant under the cinders; whoever wants to revive it may be in for a surprise.
The notion of corporate responsibility went dormant while companies polluted rivers at will.
Meredith picks a tiny patch of green moss from between clumps of tall brown grass gone dormant with the fall chill. “Look at all these little bits of biodiversity,” she said. “That’s like a little fantasy world going on in there.”
Religious, racial or national tolerance, and the ability to understand one another, are not enough to eliminate hostility and bring about justice. And wherever there is no justice, war lies dormant.
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Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
It is by lying dormant a long time, or being at first very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
The repression at Tiananmen Square dealt a serious but not fatal blow to the pro-democracy movement. It has been forced to lie dormant until a future moment of opportunity. As the revolutions in Eastern Europe proved, however, that moment will eventually come.
Thresher maws are subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating or searching for something to eat. Threshers reproduce via spores that lie dormant for millennia, yet are robust enough to survive prolonged periods in deep space and atmospheric re-entry. As a result, thresher spores appear on many worlds, spread by previous generations of space travelers.
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