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
Where there is no need it seems to be quiescent; where there is something to be met, contended with, and overcome, it is furiously 'on the job.'
From The Conquest of Fear by Basil King
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 J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
