dormant

Example Sentences

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“There’s this dormant fan base that loves the game but never had a team or league in their backyard that they can really become passionate about.”

From Seattle Times

Located on a dormant volcano in Hawaii, the Subaru Telescope takes pictures of deep space, to look for interesting or unusual looking galaxies.

From BBC

With summer heat and dry soil, many plants go dormant.

From Seattle Times

Bureau of Land Management directed oil companies to shut down 11 dormant wells there following public outrage and a lawsuit disputing the Trump administration's decision to permit the wells in the first place.

From Salon

But in 1992, a neighbor coaxed him to Santa Rosa, and Harper, who grew up playing in his backyard in Saskatchewan, felt some long dormant pleasure center reactivate in his brain.

From Seattle Times