Sample Sentences for
dormant
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    Although her illness was currently dormant, the doctors advised regular checkups to watch for any changes.
    dormant = inactive but still present
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    When Franz met McCandless, his long-dormant paternal impulses were kindled anew.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    For the first time ever, the kitchen and Mama were dormant.  (source)
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    Hopefully they'll go dormant for a while.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    ...how to come back to life after my long undersnow dormancy.  (source)
    dormancy = long-term inactivity
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    The few survivors entered a semidormant cyst-hibernation to emerge in six years as small (about three meters long) sandworms.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semidormant means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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    Like the monster it had once commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    Between my mother and myself the abuse was slow and tedious, requiring long periods of dormancy, living in the blood like hepatitis.  (source)
    dormancy = inactivity
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    The hunger, always there, had been somewhat controlled and dormant when there was nothing to eat but with the eggs came the scream to eat.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    It wasn't an accusing, protesting silence as much as a sort of estivation, a dormancy, the psychological equivalent of what lungfish do to get themselves through the dry season, except that in Estha's case the dry season looked as though it would last forever.†  (source)
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    Some of the seeds lie dormant in the desiccated earth for decades, waiting, and when the water finally comes home again, they burst through the soil, unfolding their faces.  (source)
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    But later when I had thought it through I conceded to myself that we couldn't have kept the old home going much longer and set up a gentle kind of retirement there for Mama, neither of us having that filial tabby dormancy that natural bachelors have.†  (source)
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    A long-dormant voice says, Dad did.  (source)
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