Sample sentences for QUIESCENT

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Definition

being quiet or still or inactive for the time being

or in medicine: causing no symptoms

She is always on the move and busy, but her boyfriend is quiet and quiescent.

Lady Bertram was perfectly quiescent and contented, and had no objections to make.
Austen, Jane -- Mansfield Park
On these lonely hills and dales her quiescent glide was of a piece with the element she moved in.
Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
I now strove to be entirely care-free and quiescent; and my conscience justified me in the attempt; though indeed it was not so successful as I could have wished.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street

quiescent = being quiet or inactive for the time being

the quiescent melancholy of the town
a quiescent tumor
the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation
Too anxious to remain any longer quiescent, I had no sooner breakfasted, than I repaired once more to M.
Bronte, Charlotte -- The Professor
It was but of brief continuance, however; soon leaving him in a quiescent, and, to judge by his countenance, not an uncomfortable state.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- House Of Seven Gables
So that which always had been less than secondary, now became completely quiescent, and he was satisfied that it should.
Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. -- Dust
A hungry animal is restless until it finds food; then it becomes quiescent.
Russell, Bertrand -- The Analysis of Mind
Adrienne said this with her hands resting on her lap in quiescent despair.
Cooper, James Fenimore -- Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
The traffic had diminished considerably, the rush hour over, the street in the doldrums of midmorning quiescence.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
He nodded and continued to lie quiescent, staring at the ceiling.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
He was no longer quiescent in his chair; he wandered about the room, he dropped on the couch beside her.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
"Some of the time—let's say, much of the time—it becomes quiescent.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
She lay quiescent, breathing raggedly, her hot face buried in the cool grass.
Stephen King -- Carrie
And it flashes out in your face still, until you draw that veil of dull quiescence over it.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
"Oh," said George, relapsing into a gently simmering quiescence.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
Lady Bertram was perfectly quiescent and contented, and had no objections to make.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

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