Get to know Dormant better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like inactive or quiescent.
Dormant in a sentence
Dormant meaning
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- Leaning.
Using Dormant
- The main meaning on this page is: Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. | In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant. | Leaning.
- Useful related words include: inactive, quiescent, active, sleeping.
- In the example corpus, dormant often appears in combinations such as: dormant for, been dormant, dormant in.
Context around Dormant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dormant
- In this selection, "dormant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, went, sitting, lies, reading, subscribers and egyptian stand out and add context to how "dormant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dormant reading restaurant and advantage of dormant dollars in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dormant" sits close to words such as abigail, blu and buenos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dormant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bitcoin News recently highlighted the staggering $958 million in dormant bitcoin transactions in 2023. (14 words)
After all, many dungeons have been dormant and unexplored for ages and their treasures lie forgotten. (16 words)
A dormant Reading restaurant could have flats built above it according to a plan seen this week. (17 words)
Cybercriminals are also playing the long game: it is not unusual for them to plant malware that lies dormant for up to several months, gathering information which it can then leverage to target the attack in a way which will not set off any alarm bells. (46 words)
Fagradalsfjall had been dormant for some 6000 years but it flared to life in March 2021, when hundreds of people flocked to the Reykjanes Peninsula to see spectacular lava flows that lasted for months. (34 words)
Former Congress corporators, including Ashraf Azmi, Sufian Vanu, Mohsin Haider, Asif Zakaria, Virendra Chaudhary, Sheetal Mhatre and Ajanta Yadav held a press conference saying the prescription-less policy is in a dormant state. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A dormant Reading restaurant could have flats built above it according to a plan seen this week.
After all, many dungeons have been dormant and unexplored for ages and their treasures lie forgotten.
Also, you can use your metrics to clean up your mailing list of those dormant subscribers who haven’t opened your last few mails.
An Egyptian caterer kills various women in Miami Beach to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while a police detective tries to track him down.
Another example of a franchise that went dormant after producing a few great games, deserves a lot more attention than it tends to receive.
Bitcoin News recently highlighted the staggering $958 million in dormant bitcoin transactions in 2023.
Carver Theatre will operate as a cinema showing first-run films in Waverly area after sitting dormant for 60 years near campus of historically Black university.
Chicago luminaries Quincy Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper have joined forces to reopen the historic Ramova Theater in Bridgeport, which was dormant for nearly four decades.
Cybercriminals are also playing the long game: it is not unusual for them to plant malware that lies dormant for up to several months, gathering information which it can then leverage to target the attack in a way which will not set off any alarm bells.
Fagradalsfjall had been dormant for some 6000 years but it flared to life in March 2021, when hundreds of people flocked to the Reykjanes Peninsula to see spectacular lava flows that lasted for months.
Former Congress corporators, including Ashraf Azmi, Sufian Vanu, Mohsin Haider, Asif Zakaria, Virendra Chaudhary, Sheetal Mhatre and Ajanta Yadav held a press conference saying the prescription-less policy is in a dormant state.
For the next five years, the ship lay dormant in Buccleuch Dock behind Morrisons, before being bought by Danish investors.
Her lack of social media presence is especially prevalent this year as islanders on the winter series must keep their accounts dormant while appearing on the ITV show.
Industrial operations at the site ended in 1965, after which the 62-acre campus remained largely dormant for close to 50 years.
It has also helped us answer questions that have sat dormant in the human psyche for millennia.
It was deemed an Asset of Community Value in 2015 but the venue has been dormant and remained boarded up since 2016.
I would love to see (the Tennessee Pass) rail ripped up,” Armistead said of the line that’s been dormant since 1997 — the year after a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger.
Just remember that when the grass is out of water, this fescue does not go dormant, it just dies.
Larger eruptions have disrupted European air travel, but officials said this small one, in an uninhabited area that until recently had been dormant for centuries, posed no immediate risks.
Like mobile money and agent banking, the Nigerian economy should take advantage of dormant dollars in the hands of Nigerians to meet forex demand.
Common combinations with dormant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dormant for 32×
- been dormant 15×
- dormant in 15×
- of dormant 12×
- the dormant 12×
- dormant and 10×
- remain dormant 9×
- went dormant 7×
- dormant since 7×
- lie dormant 7×