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
We must not be quiescent any more, Mrs. Williams.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
His vigorous muscles were made to be quiescent as well as to act.
From Catherine De Medici by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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)
