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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She lay quiescent, breathing raggedly, her hot face buried in the cool grass.† (source)
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It was the only way to keep them quiescent.† (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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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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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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The hut, with its thatched roof and roughly hewn veranda, was the picture of modesty and quiescence.† (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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"Oh," said George, relapsing into a gently simmering 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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Then the arrival of Man stirred them from their quiescence.† (source)
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For now, though, we'll have lunch, let it melt back into a nice quiescent ball and come back and try it again.† (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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