quiescentin a sentence
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She is always on the move and busy, but her boyfriend is quiet and quiescent.
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Quiescent as he now sat, there was something about his nostril, his mouth, his brow, which, to my perceptions, indicated elements within either restless, or hard, or eager. (source)Quiescent = 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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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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This will be my last entry before attempting the quiescent flame forest in the morning.† (source)
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It was the only way to keep them quiescent.† (source)
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She lay quiescent, breathing raggedly, her hot face buried in the cool grass.† (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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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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The hut, with its thatched roof and roughly hewn veranda, was the picture of modesty and quiescence.† (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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Then the arrival of Man stirred them from their quiescence.† (source)
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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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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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A heretofore quiescent problem was suddenly catapulted into the national consciousness.† (source)
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"Oh," said George, relapsing into a gently simmering quiescence.† (source)
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