How to Use dormant in a Sentence

dormant

adjective

• The seeds will remain dormant until the spring.
• Her emotions have lain dormant for many years.
• Then, a hard freeze late in the fall meant all that grass went dormant.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
• The rest of their Ethereum would remain dormant for the next nine months.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• By then, Koester said, the case had been dormant for 40-plus years.
  — Rio Yamat, The Enquirer, 15 June 2023
• Today, most of the pipes lie dormant under the streets of New York.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• The plant grows a big leaf each year which wilts and then becomes dormant.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2023
• Then the site went dormant last winter when cobalt prices dropped.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• In winter, nothing needs to be done to the logs as the mushrooms go dormant.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• Winter shade when the plant is dormant is not a problem.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Their seeds just sit dormant in the dry soil, waiting for their moment.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
• During drier parts of the year, the bulbs can go dormant, or the plant may simply not flower.
  — Kenneth Setzer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Then, while the plant is still dormant in the spring (just before the season's last frost), cut back any dead stems that were killed over the winter.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2023
• The label only existed for a short time in the ‘70s and has been dormant since then, but the name still belonged to Sony.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• Winter is when vines go dormant, lose their leaves and store up energy to push out a bud for the next year.
  — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• At the turn of the century, after D.C. crime rates improved, the Metro and street patrols went dormant.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• But, to Descartes, its vividness seemed to suggest a clear disjunction between the body and the mind: in dreams the body lies dormant while the mind runs free.
  — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• Because the rain came early while the vines were dormant, or not yet primed for growth, vines weren’t damaged, and the soil got refreshed.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Like the dormant insect, the Locust has reemerged, intent on destroying the world.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Boston Soccer 2026 has been dormant since, but not for much longer.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• What had lain dormant for decades suddenly sprang to the forefront of game design.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 10 Aug. 2023
• In 1937, Chrysler bought a dormant auto plant to make transmissions.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• There have been no reports of worms entering a dormant state for thousands of years, Kurzchalia states.
  — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Leo will dust off his long dormant musical skills to be his younger brother’s voice.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• The blog stopped updating and its Twitter and GitHub accounts turned dormant.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• The beloved punk band has lain dormant, at least as a studio outfit, since its 2010 album, Root for Ruin.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2024
• Curcuma goes dormant in colder weather and will not survive past the first frost.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
• Some, such has the land mines strewn across Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, are meant to lie dormant.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The Taper hasn’t been dormant in this period of hiatus.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• The Taper hasn’t been dormant in this period of hiatus.
  — Charles McNulty, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024