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
• The virus had been dormant for tens of thousands of years.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 3 Dec. 2022
• The plant goes dormant, but the leaves hold their color.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 18 May 2024
• Let the soil dry out and the grass go dormant during the summer.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2021
• Today, most of the pipes lie dormant under the streets of New York.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• The latent phase: Can lie dormant for decades in nerve cells near the head and spine.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• Store the dormant corms in a cool, dry spot and replant next May.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
• The plant grows a big leaf each year which wilts and then becomes dormant.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2023
• The best time to move the wood pile would be when the bees are dormant, which is wintertime.
  — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2022
• The board goes far back in the city’s history, but sat dormant for a while.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Grass can turn brown and go dormant when it's stressed by drought, heat, or both.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2021
• 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
• The best time to make the move is when the bulbs go dormant, fall through late winter, before spring growth.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2022
• Caldaie was dormant, no one had any idea what to do with it.
  — Vogue, 12 July 2021
• Winter shade when the plant is dormant is not a problem.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Alberg rekindles the dormant fire of a man who has lost his spark.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• Many natives go dormant during the hotter months and a splash could be the end of them.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 10 July 2024
• Motocross starts toward the end of May, is over at the end of August, and then is dormant.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• Many of these titles have been dormant and out-of-print for decades outside of Asia.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025
• Some rainfall and snow has boosted prospects for the now-dormant plants.
  — Michael Hirtzer, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2022
• The five straight is a first for Cup at a speedway that sat dormant the last decade and first for the series in the Nashville area in 37 years.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2021
• Most tree-ring records are blind to what happens in winter, when the trees are dormant.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
• Spring blooming native and South African bulbs are dormant now, so this is the time to plant them.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
• As just one example, the City of Phoenix has 5,500 dormant parcels.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
• The construction of a skyscraper left dormant since 2015 in northern China is set to resume early next week, according to Chinese state media.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025