be quiescent

Example Sentences

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The security threat from the Islamic State may be quiescent now, but is hardly gone, according to senior Iraqi security officials.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

The third, around Leningrad, seemed now to be quiescent; it had changed from a sector to an episode.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes it takes leaps, and sometimes appears for a time to be quiescent.

From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)

Where there is no need it seems to be quiescent; where there is something to be met, contended with, and overcome, it is furiously 'on the job.'

From The Conquest of Fear by King, Basil

Neipperg, too, is glad to be quiescent; "my Infantry hopelessly inferior," he writes to head-quarters: "Could not one hire 10,000 Saxons, think you,"—or do several other chimerical things, for help?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas