Example sentences for: dormant

How can you use “dormant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The two Times explain that the Chilean election marks not only the resuscitation of socialism in the country but also of the dormant right--the margin of victory was slim over a former Pinochet aide.

  • Logic lay dormant for many centuries after being worked over so brilliantly by The Skull Ass-ticks, but it was finally rescued from angelic oblivion by Herr Professor Gottlob der Friggin', who proved that the morning star is not the same as the evening star, even though both are Venus.

  • Deep inside the Post there's word that despite earlier denials, Switzerland's largest bank yesterday admitted that documents discovered in its shredder room by a night watchman who then disseminated them may in fact have been related to dormant accounts of Holocaust victims.

  • Graciously, it remains dormant for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come every year to climb to the summit.

  • Interest in writing systems was dormant for many years: some thirty years ago, the only—and best-known— scholar working with alphabets was Dr. David Diringer.


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