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

In respect to anxiety we are to be quiescent as the lilies, which neither toil nor spin, but in respect of moral evil, within or without, we must be vigilant and strenuous.

From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by Milligan, George

He pitied himself, and he reached the conclusion that he suffered because he was active; he could not be quiescent.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

She marched 30,000 men into her German provinces; but finding that Austria and Prussia were resolved to be quiescent, was fain to offer explanations, and recall her troops.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)