dormancy

Example Sentences

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Cooling temperatures cast the foliage with shades of wine before it fades to a pleasing straw color in dormancy.

From Seattle Times

The trees need that chill to induce dormancy, a frost-free spring to let the blossoms bloom and bees pollinate — though sour cherry trees are also self-pollinating.

From Washington Post

Learn how to maintain native plants in the summer, when many go into dormancy.

From Los Angeles Times

A vast judicial machine that evicted tenants at more than double the national average in the years before the pandemic is revving up after months of dormancy.

From Washington Post

Theater has awakened from its enforced dormancy at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, though it’s still rubbing sleep out of its eyes.

From Los Angeles Times