dormant

IPA: dˈɔrmʌnt

Examples of "dormant" in Sentences

How long they will remain dormant is anybody's guess.
The leaves go dormant in summer before the fruits ripen.
She is dormant in the ember, in the cinders, in the flame.
What is the difference between dormant and abeyant titles
The seeds remain dormant in the soil during the dry season.
It is able to unleash the dormant fighting potential of the wearer.
They cast a spell which reawakened many dormant magics in the Land.
On the death of the seventh Baronet in 1743 the baronetcy became dormant.
The baronetcy became dormant in 1786 on the death of the seventh Baronet.
In the remainder, it remains dormant and the person matures as a heterosexual.
A human thirst for revenge, long dead, awakened in dormant parts of the brainstem.
Clause 86 will remain dormant until the government chooses to enact it by order-in-council.
But this side of her nature had lain dormant through the years, waiting for the mate to appear.
The term dormant factor (bag-la nyal) means, literally, something that is “asleep to the taste of the mind.”
They are dormant, at any rate, to use another word, for the death of my text is not so absolute a death but that a resurrection is possible, and so _dormant_ comes to express pretty nearly the same thing.
The firm's court-appointed receiver, Lee Richards, said the move "greatly reduced" the assets of the company, which he described as a dormant entity with no clients that served solely as a proprietary trading unit, Bloomberg reports.