Sample Sentences forquiescent (auto-selected)
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"You have a very bad disposition," said she, "and one to this day I feel it impossible to understand: how for nine years you could be patient and quiescent under any treatment, and in the tenth break out all fire and violence, I can never comprehend." (source)quiescent = quiet and inactive
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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. (source)quiescent = being quiet or inactive for the time being
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He brought out his hand, shook water from it, staring at the quiescent metal in the fountain.† (source)
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This will be my last entry before attempting the quiescent flame forest in the morning.† (source)
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At the moment, Vitaly Chernobyl is stretched out on a futon, quiescent, and Hiro Protagonist is sitting cross-legged at a low table, Nipponese style, consisting of a cargo pallet set on cmderbiocks.† (source)
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By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows.† (source)
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It was the only way to keep them quiescent.† (source)
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If Edgar Linton meets me, I shall not hesitate to knock him down, and give him enough to insure his quiescence while I stay.† (source)
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She lay quiescent, breathing raggedly, her hot face buried in the cool grass.† (source)
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The hut, with its thatched roof and roughly hewn veranda, was the picture of modesty and quiescence.† (source)
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Some of the time—let's say, much of the time—it becomes quiescent.† (source)
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"Oh," said George, relapsing into a gently simmering quiescence.† (source)
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Branches caught at Harry's hair and robes, but he lay quiescent, his mouth lolling open, his eyes shut, and in the darkness, while the Death Eaters coed all around them, and while Hagrid sobbed blindly, nobody looked to see whether a pulse beat in the exposed neck of Harry Potter.... The two giants crashed along behind the Death Eaters; Harry could hear trees creaking and falling as they passed; they made so much din that birds toes shrieking into the sky, and even the jeers of the Death Eaters were drowned.† (source)
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The traffic had diminished considerably, the rush hour over, the street in the doldrums of midmorning quiescence.† (source)
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Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet reached.† (source)
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She tried to reach out, to whatever coded tenacity of protein might improbably have held on six feet below, still resisting decay—any stubborn quiescence perhaps gathering itself for some last burst, some last scramble up through earth, just-glimmering, holding together with its final strength a transient, winged shape, needing to settle at once in the warm host, or dissipate forever into the dark.† (source)
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