dormant

IPA: dˈɔrmʌnt

Examples of "dormant" in Sentences

How long they will remain dormant is anybody's guess.
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.