How to Use quiescent in a Sentence

quiescent

adjective
  • Once all the food has been absorbed, the python’s organs shrink back to their quiescent state.
    — Daniel Engber, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • There is no guarantee that the crisis will remain quiescent for much longer.
    — Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Sometimes those black holes are quiescent, like the one at the center of our Milky Way.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020
  • As children pass into their teens and young adulthood, asthma will often go quiescent.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • The stock had been quiescent for the previous 2 weeks, drifting down gently.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • But too many appear quiescent, perhaps unaware of the true nature of the war in Ukraine being fought in their name.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Whitlam example suggests that there’s no need for the Crown to be so quiescent.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • As oil prices drop with the Iran war quiescent, US consumers might hope price rises could level off.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 25 June 2026
  • This primes the cells to fuse, causing some to quickly become muscle fibers and others to stick to those fibers and remain stem cells in their quiescent states.
    — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2016
  • By contrast, only one percent of quiescent galaxies had obscured black holes.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Human stem cells are born into the bone marrow and then go quiescent, waiting for the body to call out to them to grow and differentiate.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • China now has a large, prosperous middle class that is quiescent out of realistic caution but yearns for more freedom.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2019
  • Yet all were within the technical limits of the law, and none has been seriously challenged in the nation’s now-quiescent courts.
    — Jonah Blank, The Atlantic, 10 June 2021
  • The recent uptick in prices comes after decades of generally quiescent inflation.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
  • In a quantum era like this one, the quiescent forces pose serious threats to financial and infrastructure systems.
    — Dr. Reji Thomas, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Another implication is that quiescent black holes like this could be much more common than thought, suggesting there are many more to be discovered.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 May 2020
  • Foreign-exchange reserve figures ticked up slightly in July, but have been largely quiescent.
    — Mike Bird, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Flights via the Gulf are being restored as the Iran conflict remains quiescent, but tourists are staying away from the region itself.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
  • But in just the last few years, that quiescent period ended in dramatic fashion as a string of major eruptions sent lava flowing toward many of these sites.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The government has intimidated the rest of the media into a fairly quiescent bunch.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • The researchers showed this by watching for the bright state to go quiescent for slightly longer than normal, then applying a kick at just the right moment to ensure that the atom entered the dark state.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
  • With her prey calm and quiescent, the wasp can replenish her energy by breaking the roach's antennae and drinking some sweet, nutritious insect blood.
    — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • But the astronomers suspect this kind of bursty young galaxy in the early universe may someday evolve into what's known as a massive quiescent galaxy in the modern-day cosmos.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The mechanism is just one way that scientists are realizing that asteroids can be active, dynamic places rather than quiescent lumps of rock.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Other than that, though, Mormon culture is a quiescent subtext, lurking in the background but largely unexplored.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The military takeover belies knee-jerk assumptions of an earlier era, when it was assumed Beijing would prefer an opaque, quiescent regime on its doorstep.
    — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The top flame shows the ideal, reference case of a stable, smooth flame surface in a quiescent environment at atmospheric pressure.
    — Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
  • The foundation for Putin’s power has been a pro-Putin—or at least quiescent—Russian population.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2023
  • The unemployment rate is at a nearly 50-year low, and inflation — though quiescent — has at least gotten close to the central bank’s 2 percent goal.
    — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • For galaxies with a quiescent supermassive black hole, astronomers measure how quickly the stars tightly packed near the center of the galaxy are traveling.
    — Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026

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