How to Use quiescent in a Sentence

quiescent

adjective

• Once all the food has been absorbed, the python’s organs shrink back to their quiescent state.
  — Daniel Engber, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• Sometimes those black holes are quiescent, like the one at the center of our Milky Way.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020
• At the very smallest size scales, space is not quiescent.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• In the absence of a threat, immune cells are quiescent.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2021
• The Whitlam example suggests that there’s no need for the Crown to be so quiescent.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• But too many appear quiescent, perhaps unaware of the true nature of the war in Ukraine being fought in their name.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• It’s not like Europe, where in a lot of countries youth activism is quiescent or on decline.
  — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• The stock had been quiescent for the previous 2 weeks, drifting down gently.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• This primes the cells to fuse, causing some to quickly become muscle fibers and others to stick to those fibers and remain stem cells in their quiescent states.
  — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2016
• Vesuvius’s importance, too, seems to have waned: the volcano has been quiescent since 1944.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023
• The researchers showed this by watching for the bright state to go quiescent for slightly longer than normal, then applying a kick at just the right moment to ensure that the atom entered the dark state.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• Yet all were within the technical limits of the law, and none has been seriously challenged in the nation’s now-quiescent courts.
  — Jonah Blank, The Atlantic, 10 June 2021
• The unemployment rate is at a nearly 50-year low, and inflation — though quiescent — has at least gotten close to the central bank’s 2 percent goal.
  — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
• This is the first time many adults have experienced meaningful inflation: Price gains had been largely quiescent since the late 1980s.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• The unemployment rate is at its lowest level in nearly 50 years, and inflation — though quiescent — has at least gotten close to the central bank’s 2 percent goal.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• The government has intimidated the rest of the media into a fairly quiescent bunch.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• With her prey calm and quiescent, the wasp can replenish her energy by breaking the roach's antennae and drinking some sweet, nutritious insect blood.
  — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• The military takeover belies knee-jerk assumptions of an earlier era, when it was assumed Beijing would prefer an opaque, quiescent regime on its doorstep.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• Sleep is not the same as hibernation, or coma, or inebriation, or any other quiescent state, wrote the French sleep scientist Henri Piéron in 1913.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2021
• Another implication is that quiescent black holes like this could be much more common than thought, suggesting there are many more to be discovered.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 May 2020
• Other than that, though, Mormon culture is a quiescent subtext, lurking in the background but largely unexplored.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2021
• Similarly, Itoh and his team reported in Science Advances in 2020 that tiny hydras of the species Hydra vulgaris also have a quiescent period that acts a lot like sleep.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
• Although astronomers have long known that any quasar will eventually become quiescent as its central black hole exhausts its feedstock of gas and dust, such objects are so immense in scale that the process should take tens of thousands of years.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2019
• The recent uptick in prices comes after decades of generally quiescent inflation.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• The top flame shows the ideal, reference case of a stable, smooth flame surface in a quiescent environment at atmospheric pressure.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• By contrast, only one percent of quiescent galaxies had obscured black holes.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• Foreign-exchange reserve figures ticked up slightly in July, but have been largely quiescent.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• The mechanism is just one way that scientists are realizing that asteroids can be active, dynamic places rather than quiescent lumps of rock.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
• But if inflation remains quiescent, and the fiscal stimulus propels asset prices higher instead, the Fed could face some tough decisions.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• By May, the President was surrounded by advisers in name only, who competed to be the most explicitly quiescent.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018

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