Dormant Sentence Examples

They are cut to the last dormant bud in winter.

In the winter it covers the orifice of this burrow with a layer of silk, and lies dormant underground until the return of spring.

The developing seed thus encloses fungal hyphae, which remain dormant within the seed and in spring develop symbiotically with the growth of the wheat plant, doing no apparent injury until the time of fruiting is reached, when the fungus takes complete possession and fills the new seed with a mass of darkcoloured spores.

In Owen's Valley is a fine group of extinct or dormant volcanoes.

A lesson in geometry, given by Ostilio Ricci to the pages of the grand-ducal court, chanced, tradition avers, to have Galileo for an unseen listener; his attention was riveted, his dormant genius was roused, and he threw all his energies into the new pursuit thus unexpectedly presented to him.

By subjecting a plant to a gradually increasing temperature, and supplying water in proportion, its growth may be accelerated; its season of development may be, as it were, anticipated; it is roused from a dormant to an active state.

Generaly this is a timid animal, feeding almost solely on fruits, and lying dormant during winter.

In other cases the strands undergo differentiation into an outer layer with blackened, hardened cell-walls and a core of ordinary hyphae, and are then termed rhizomorphs (Armillaria mellea), capable not only of extending the fungus in the soil, like roots, but also of lying dormant, protected by the outer casing.

Thus the first impulse of modern progress was given to the dormant valley.

In most species many of these buds, which alternate with the leaves, remain dormant, but in others the aerial shoots are copiously and repeatedly branched.

It had to wait two centuries after the revolution of 987 before it was strong enough to take up the dormant tradition of an authority like that of Rome; and until then it cunningly avoided unequal strife in which, victory being impossible, reverses might have weakened those titles, higher than any due to feudal rights, conferred by the heritage of the Caesars and the coronation at Reims, and held in reserve for the future.

Tulips need a cold dormant season in order to bloom, but not too cold.

While the game itself has stayed dormant for the last nine years, the setting has had a rich and fruitful life.

Sudden warmth will cause a dormant tree to "wake up" and start to grow and a tree that is actively growing will die when it is abruptly returned to freezing conditions.

There are eight other volcanoes, which although extinct or dormant have well-preserved cones.

Therefore, America's military tended to be relatively dormant.

The energy of serenity lies dormant in all things, waiting to be awakened.

This added layer should allow them to stay dormant for the winter and grow in the spring.Whether you have root vegetables already planted or just a few perennials hanging out over winter, it is still best to mulch the entire garden.

Asbestos can lay dormant without causing any adverse effects for many years.

The Grand Lodge of all England at York became dormant.

Did you have positive PCR tests over a period of several years until 1996 before your PCR tests went dormant?

With cooler weather, most plants, including lawns, go into a dormant period.

Antibody levels can be elevated for years, however, even when the disease is in a dormant state.

The herpes virus lies dormant in the nerves of the face and is reactivated by sunburn, a recent viral illness (cold or flu), and periods of stress.

These dormant viruses are concentrated in nerve cells near the spinal cord and may reactivate in adults, causing the disease herpes zoster or shingles.

More often than not the blisters disappear without treatment in two to 10 days, but the virus remains in the body, lying dormant among clusters of nerve cells until another outbreak is triggered.

Colored hair is prone to breakage, basically creating a vicious cycle of hair that grows, breaks, sits dormant, and grows again.

Just when a race begian to develop, along came huge Wraith hive ships to cull the herd before becoming dormant until the next time they needed to feed.

In mythology, the butterfly is most often associated with rebirth, because the caterpillar emerges as a beautiful butterfly after a dormant time in the cocoon.

Deactivated accounts lay dormant until the account owner logs in again, at which time it returns as if nothing had happened.

On this account quarrying is another industry which is seldom dormant.

Most of the hardy bulbs will do well enough in the border, care being taken not to disturb them while leafless and dormant.

Seasonal adaptation include spinning a cocoon, lying dormant or laying eggs for the winter period.

This had the effect of causing the cell to become quiescent - to become dormant.

They appear randomly at particular sites and may be active for years or become dormant then reactivate some years later.

Rhizome buds may remain dormant or develop into aerial shoots or new rhizome buds may remain dormant or develop into aerial shoots or new rhizomes.

The secret, she reveals, is to have rootstock beginning to grow, but the variety wood dormant.

This high figure includes ' dormant ' sites on which mineral working may not recommence without the prior approval of new planning conditions.

After the Revolution and during the reign of William and Mary the hatred of the Church of England to the Presbyterians and other dissenters had been obliged to lie dormant.

Many sciophytes are herbaceous tropophytes, and are dormant for more than half the year, usually during late summer, autumn and early winter.

The peerage became extinct or dormant on the death of the 8th viscount in 1767.

Development of larva and seed go on together, a few of the seeds serving as food for the insect, which when mature eats through the pericarp and drops to the ground, remaining dormant in its cocoon until the next season of flowering when it emerges as a moth.

In spring 2004 we were surprised to find the dormant Sydenham Town the most popular Sydenham site by Google ranking.

Planting in early fall gives the root system time to get established before going dormant in the winter.

In general, pruning deciduous plants when dormant (after leaf drop) helps you see their structure and reduces pest and disease problems.

Fertilize in late fall when trees are dormant or in early spring just before new growth starts.

Fall planting provides the tree or shrub with enough time to set down some roots before going dormant for the winter.

Before the lawn goes into its dormant phase, it should be at its healthiest.

Dormant plants kept in large pots or tubs can be moved into garages or other shelters if necessary.

When plants are dormant in the winter, their water needs are considerably less than during the active periods of growth and reproduction during the summer months.

Oregano, mint, and similar herbs may go dormant but usually do not require much winter protection.

The plants are dormant during the summer months and bloom from late winter through the spring.

When this occurs, the follicles become dormant, and hair stops growing.

The other 10 percent of your hair remains in a dormant or resting stage, and these are the hairs that are usually shed.

Women who have become infected six months or more before conception do not pass the infection on to their fetus, because the organism has become dormant (inactive) and formed thick-walled cysts in muscle and other tissues of the body.

Latent virus-A nonactive virus that is in a dormant state within a cell.

Impairment of the immune system has been unquestionably determined to be the reason why Herpes Viruses are reactivated from a dormant state and re-infect children causing Bell's palsy.

It is not known whether the weakened virus used for VZV can remain dormant in the body, eventually causing shingles in the same way that the naturally occurring varicella virus can.

Like other herpes viruses, CMV remains inactive (dormant) within the body for life after the initial infection.

Some of the more serious types of CMV infections occur in people who have been harboring the dormant virus, only to have it reactivate when their immune system is stressed.

However, this information is not always particularly helpful because CMV stays dormant in the cells for life.

About 50 percent of all transplant patients develop severe illnesses due to reactivation of dormant CMV infection.

Lacking these conditions, the bacteria transform themselves into spores that, like plant seeds, can remain dormant for years.

Many times TB is not diagnosed and becomes dormant; this is known as initial tuberculosis.

The rabies virus may lie dormant in the body for several weeks or months, but rarely much longer, before symptoms appear.

You need to reduce the amount of water in the winter when your plant becomes dormant.

This is the stage where the hair is dormant.

This dormant period is where hair growth is inactive for quite some time.

You want the tree to remain dormant and concentrate its energy on establishing roots.

If you feel like your creativity is dormant, and you haven't had a new or original idea for days or longer, a writing prompt can help spark your imagination.

Once a person has been initially infected with the virus, it will lie dormant until a "trigger" occurs that will cause the virus to reappear.

The dormant volcano, sitting 10,000 feet above sea level, is located inside a self-named national park.

Haleakala National Park is home to the Haleakala Crater, the largest dormant volcano in the world.

For four million years, the ship and all of the Transformers, Autobots and Decepticons, were rendered dormant until a volcano activated the ships regeneration powers.

If this isn't enough to deal with, then a dormant program in his brain activates and he learns his is a Cylon!

A great proportion of the food constituents which can be extracted by strong hydrochloric acid are not in a condition to be taken up by the roots of plants; they are present, but in a " dormant " state, although by tillage and weathering processes they may in time become " available " to plants.

Machiavelli, meanwhile, was reading his Discorsi to a select audience in the Rucellai gardens, fanning that republican enthusiasm which never lay long dormant among the Florentines.

Seeds and division of the root-stock when the plants are dormant are the best methods of increase.

The seeds often remain dormant for some time before vegetating; those of A. umbellata germinate readily.

Remember that perennial seeds often have a long dormant period, and that some seeds may germination before others.

If you've missed the window of opportunity in the spring, plant them in the fall, which also provides ample time for the plants to settle in before going dormant in the wintertime.

The soil is pliable, making it easy to turn over and add compost, and plants added to the garden now have several weeks to establish their roots before going dormant in the winter.

Also refers to a protective, walled-off capsule in which an organism lies dormant.

In some children, the virus lies dormant and never causes harm.

Then a dormant period known as the telogen phase occurs.

The herpes family of viruses share some common characteristics, including the capacity for long life, going into a dormant phase that in some cases can literally last decades following infection, having an affinity for nerve tissue.

Because the virus becomes dormant following its initial infection of the body, a large number of HSV-1 carriers are thus produced, most often without the infected person or others even being aware that HSV-1 is present.

It lies dormant in the nerve cells, where it may be reactivated years later by disease or age-related weakening of the immune system.

After fertilization the female cell, now called the oospore, divides and part of it develops into the embryo (new sporophyte), which remains dormant for a time still protected by the ovule which has developed to become the seed.

During the winter earwigs lie dormant; but in the early months of the year females with their eggs may be found in the soil, frequently in deserted earthworm burrows.

When the storm had subsided the Clergy Reserves and university questions remained dormant until 1836, when the attempt to apply the Reserves to the endowment of rectories renewed the trouble and contributed largely to the crisis of 1837.

The length of the period during which seeds remain dormant after their formation is very variable.

Remove the snow that accumulates on cold frames or other glass structures, particularly if the soil which the glass covers was not frozen before the snow fell; it may remain on the sashes longer if the plants are frozen in, since they are dormant, and would not be injured if deprived of light for eight or ten days.

The buds of trees of temperate climates, which lie dormant during the winter, are protected by scale leaves.

On the continent of Europe, France was the first to recognize the merits of its bygone designers and craftsmen, and even antecedent to the Exhibition of 1851, when art in Great Britain was dormant, it was possible to obtain in Paris faithful reproductions of the finest ormolu work of the 18th century.

But his contempt for the annalistic form makes him at times careless in his chronology and arbitrary in his method of arranging his material; he not infrequently flies off at a tangent to relate stories which have little or no connexion with the main narrative; his critical faculty is too often allowed to lie dormant.

The ear loses its starch, and ceases to grow, and its ovaries become penetrated with the white spongy tissue of the mycelium of the fungus which towards the end of the season forms the sclerotium, in which state the fungus lies dormant through the winter.

After about a week's feeding they drop to the ground, lie dormant for a month, during which time they acquire their fourth pair of legs xxvi.

At the beginning of the cold season the common dormouse retires to its nest, and curling itself up in a ball, becomes dormant.

It was active between 1789 and 1832, but has since been dormant.

These administrative changes, and especially the brief existence of united "Illyria," stimulated the dormant nationalism of the Croats and their jealousy of the Magyars.

The question of the succession in France lay dormant until the end of the century, and Fleury thought he had definitely obtained peace in the treaty of Vienna (1731).

Katie.s dormant maternal instinct roared to life, and she dived at Toby, snatching his legs to keep the jaguar from dragging him fully into the forest.

Institutions may have different definitions of dormant account, lost account or unclaimed assets.

Examine each branch and look for a pair of leaves where there are two tiny dormant buds in the leaf axil.

As they are dragged through the rift caves to Quentaris some of the slaves undergo a change that awakens some dormant psychic abilities.

By this time the Welsh Hang Gliding Federation had become largely dormant.

Little do most people know, that volcano was completely dormant.

The child remains dormant, in spite of the change.

Life lies dormant in seeds, then hey presto!

This as expected creates offshoots from the dormant buds on the stem.

Viruses may lie dormant within cells for many years before they enter an active phase.

Dundee maintains a spectacular position on the Tay Estuary and is dominated by a dormant volcano called " The Law " .

A dormant volcano has not erupted in 2000 years.

Further obstruction was manifestly futile, and the British authorities reluctantly instructed Captain Hobson, R.N., to make his way to northern New Zealand with a dormant commission of lieutenant-governor in his pocket and authority to annex the country to Australia by peaceful arrangement with the natives.

If they have been kept fresh and dormant, they should still be in good condition.

Meanwhile his genius had not been dormant, and two years after his reception at court, in 584 A.H.

The change in Spain's economic policy, including an attempt to exploit the coalfields and to encourage both agriculture and commerce, helped to awaken hitherto dormant elements.

It is not inconceivable that the CaMV 35S promoter in transgenic constructs can reactivate dormant viruses or generate new viruses by recombination.

And there is evidence that such dormant viruses can be reactivated as a result of genetic recombination.

Rhizome buds may remain dormant or develop into aerial shoots or new rhizomes.

When the bitch becomes pregnant the hormones that she releases stimulates the roundworm larvae, which can be lying dormant in the tissues.

Dundee maintains a spectacular position on the Tay Estuary and is dominated by a dormant volcano called " The Law ".

It is transmitted by wind-borne asexual spores and the dormant phase is as mycelium in dead leaf matter during frosty or dry summer conditions.

Viruses, for example, will often remain dormant in the system and can reactivate every so often in an infection.

In any case the planting should be completed while the crowns remain dormant.

They are best planted in autumn when dormant, arranging the dry roots (tubers) 6 inches deep at least.

The plants are increased readily by division when dormant, and also by seeds, which are freely produced.

Never fertilize during droughts, when grasses naturally go dormant.

Like trees and shrubs, perennial flowers also benefit by easing into the garden through moderate temperatures, warmer soil, and the cool dormant period of winter.

The site has unfortunately been dormant for some time now, though there is still a large collection of great wallpapers in the archives.

Spore-A dormant form assumed by some bacteria, such as anthrax, that enable the bacterium to survive high temperatures, dryness, and lack of nourishment for long periods of time.

The subject was practically dormant for nearly a century and a half, largely owing to the dominance of classificatory botany under the in.fluen.ce of Linnaeus.

According to one theory, the germ lies dormant until December, when it begins to develop; but it is now believed that this long gestation is due to slow rather than arrested development.

An excellent packing material for dormant buds is coarsely crushed woodcharcoal to which has been added a sprinkling of flowers of sulphur.

In northern countries bears retire during the winter into caves and the hollows of trees, or allow the falling snow to cover them, and there remain dormant till the advent of spring, about which time the female usually produces her young.

Division, or partition, is usually resorted to in the case of tufted growing plants, chiefly perennial herbs; they may be evergreen, as chamomile or thrift, or when dormant may consist only of underground crowns, as larkspur or lily-of-thevalley; but in either case the old tufted plant being dug up may be divided into separate pieces, each furnished with roots, and, when replanted, generally starting on its own account without much check.

Many of the buds remain dormant, or are called to development under exceptional circumstances, such as the destruction of existing branches.

For instance, the clipping of a hedge or the lopping of a tree will cause to develop numerous buds which may have been dormant for years.

In view of the troubles in the Transvaal, and in furtherance of Carnarvon's federation scheme, Shepstone was, on the 5th of October following, given a dormant commission to annex the republic " if it was desired by the inhabitants and in his judgment necessary."

The Arctic-Alpine sub-region consists of races of plants belonging originally to the general flora, and recruited by subsequent additrons, which have been specialized in low stature and great capacity of endurance to survive long dormant periods, sometimes even unbroken in successive years by the transitory activity of the brief summer.

He brought out his first play, La Belle au bois dormant, in 1894 and his first volume of poetry, La Chambre blanche, in 1895.

The iron sulphate solution should be used while the vines are in a dormant condition, and diseased parts should be cleared away and burned, The black rot, like the Uncinula and Plasmopara, is also American in its origin.

The more or less dormant nitrogen and other constituents of the humus are made immediately available to the succeeding crop, but the capital of the soil is rapidly reduced, and unless the loss is replaced by the addition of more manures the land may become sterile.

Those buds are to be preferred, as being best ripened, which occur on the middle portion of a young shoot, and which are quite dormant at the time.

It must be observed, in Jomini's defence, that he had for years held a dormant commission in the Russian army, that he had declined to take part in the invasion of Russia in 1812, and that he was a Swiss and not a Frenchman.

In that period of extreme degradation into which all the higher arts fell after the destruction of the Roman Empire, though true feeling for beauty and knowledge of the subtleties of the human form remained for centuries almost dormant, yet at Byzantium at least there still survived great technical skill and power in the production of all sorts of metal-work.

In the majority of cases the good results obtained are more particularly due to the setting free of " dormant " or " latent " food constituents and to the amelioration of the texture of the soil, so that its aeration, drainage, temperature and water-holding capacity are altered for the better.

In other species the infection occurs through the style of the flower, but the fungus after reaching the ovule develops no further during that year but remains dormant in the embryo of the seed.

The separated cells become intermingled with other tissue elements amongst which they lie dormant with their inherent power of proliferation in abeyance.