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
Christian philosophy had seemed to be quiescent, but there were questions which thoughtful men must have seen would soon come up for solution as the inevitable result of the Monophysite controversy.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden
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
Sometimes it takes leaps, and sometimes appears for a time to be quiescent.
From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)
