DORMANT in a Sentence

Learn DORMANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DORMANT, such as:

1. Her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened.
2. The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.
3. The pupae remain dormant in the soil until they emerge as adult moths in the winter.
4. In the chill of deep space, bacteria somehow shielded from cosmic radiation might survive dormant for millions of years.
5. This roused me from my nearly dormant state, and I ate some berries which I found hanging on the trees or lying on the ground.

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 Meanings and Examples of DORMANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dormant
 a.  sleeping; not active but capable of becoming active
Classic Sentence:
1  This roused me from my nearly dormant state, and I ate some berries which I found hanging on the trees or lying on the ground.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  The house was dormant; one thread of smoke thickened against the trees.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
Example Sentence:
1  The pupae remain dormant in the soil until they emerge as adult moths in the winter.
2  The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.
3  Her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened.
4  In the chill of deep space, bacteria somehow shielded from cosmic radiation might survive dormant for millions of years.