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

Perplexity is active and painful; doubt may be quiescent.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

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)

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