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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But Young marks the best chance for the Texans to jumpstart a rebuild that has been dormant for some time.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2023
• The idea here was that the game may go dormant and then re-emerge with some sort of free-to-play relaunch to draw in more players.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 Sep. 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
• While the corpse flowers lay dormant, bright green branches pop out of the soil beside them.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2022
• From there, the offense went dormant, held without a first down its next four possessions and to just 58 yards the rest of the game.
  — Eamonn Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Additionally, know your plants: Many perennials go dormant and can even die back to the roots.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024