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
Sometimes it takes leaps, and sometimes appears for a time to be quiescent.
From The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray
It simply teaches that during the actual formulation of suggestions, that is for a few minutes daily, the Will should be quiescent.
From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Emile Coué
His vigorous muscles were made to be quiescent as well as to act.
From Catherine De Medici by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
