How to Use quiescence in a Sentence

quiescence

noun

• Most volcanoes spend much of their lifetime in a state of quiescence, but Stromboli bucks that trend.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• After a few years of quiescence, all signs point to mega-mergers reappearing on the horizon.
  — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Even if the summer could bring higher prices, though, the market’s quiescence today in the face of such provocations shouldn’t be dismissed as a mere curio.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• When the body falls ill, comorbidities strike from quiescence.
  — Daniel Barron, Scientific American, 21 June 2020
• The one hope of quiescence is that the attacker, thinking its quarry has expired, will stop attacking.
  — Jeff Wise, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010
• If the cell is doing well and reproducing regularly, this quiescence is a good way for the viral genes to make more copies of themselves.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
• That long period of quiescence seems to fly in the face of the popular belief that serial rapists and killers are incapable of stopping.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• The long period of quiescence came from shorter-term factors that, for a time, outweighed the more conducive conditions.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• But his quiescence on the violence in Charlottesville has had, in many ways, a more profound and unsettling effect.
  — Glenn Thrush and Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2017
• After a few puffs last week, the volcano is now releasing a relatively constant stream of ash and steam, this after ~10 months of quiescence.
  — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2009
• Ebola is an RNA virus, which emerged in Uganda this summer after four years of relative quiescence.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• But over the next eight years, as solar activity built to a peak and then regressed back toward quiescence, the sun emitted no high-energy gamma rays at all.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
• Institutions famed for their trading prowess, such as Goldman Sachs, have seen profits dented by the quiescence of the markets.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• But in the meantime Trump’s party is giving every impression of quiescence.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018
• The resulting public quiescence can make the status quo seem permanent.
  — Sofia Fenner, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• And though the guest bedroom can exist in a state of dark quiescence approaching that of an isolation chamber, the rest of the basement shares with some New York apartments the unfortunate tendency of sound bleed-through.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• After a period of relative quiescence, the machine is back on full throttle.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• The short clip is well worth a watch, if only to get a sense of how vast and powerful volcanoes like Nyiragongo are, even during periods of relative quiescence.
  — Robin Andrews, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• At the time, bedbugs were spreading around the United States—after a long period of quiescence—so a lot of research was focused on understanding and controlling the insects.
  — Popular Science, 10 June 2020
• Like quiescence, aggressive defense is a tactic of last resort.
  — Jeff Wise, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010
• But our collective quiescence is the product of a misconception.
  — Gary Hamel, Quartz at Work, 17 Aug. 2020
• And Diana, from whom nothing was expected but quiescence and children, became a model for seizing power as a populist.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2020
• In this time of human quiescence, the creaking of some potentially dangerous faults may be detected better than ever.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• There, at a point of gravitational quiescence called L2, Webb will begin what astronomers say will be revolutionary studies of the universe.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2016
• This is straining a 60-year-old covenant, under which the regime provides security, free public services and a tolerable standard of living in return for its people’s quiescence.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Prior to this three-quarter century quiescence, the volcano was vociferous, producing dozens of potent eruptions over the two centuries.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2015
• Regardless of their type, the oligarchs have helped Putin stay in power through their political quiescence and economic support of the Kremlin’s domestic initiatives.
  — Stanislav Markus, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022
• The possibility of support from China and Russia—coupled with the quiescence of Western democracies—will allow many governments to be less responsive to their citizens and cater to a narrow elite.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2023
• The composer’s 1947 score, for a Merce Cunningham ballet, depicts the seasons winter through fall as quiescence, creation, preservation and destruction (a Prelude to Winter brings it full circle).
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2017
• The Cole attack’s overseer certainly noticed the American quiescence.
  — Warren Bass, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019

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