Severe cold can cause animals to enter a quiescent state.    From LearnThat.org. 

The quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The quiescent melancholy of the town.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A quiescent tumor.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

So - how long will the people of Azerbaijan remain quiescent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Reaction to Hajizade-Milli trial] Reference

So – how long will the people of Azerbaijan remain quiescent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Detained video bloggers go on trial] Reference

It can be challenging for therapy to kill nondividing cells sometimes referred to as quiescent cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salmonella Is Tested] Reference

She lay absolutely crushed, in a kind of quiescent hysterics, tortured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

The campuses, for now, are quiescent on the Balkans front.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Soldier] Reference

He's been quiescent since last spring's election campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME TO DELIVER] Reference

Without the impulse a large and various mind may lie quiescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

When we entered puberty, quiescent genes were suddenly activated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond the Book of Life] Reference

'I believe we have reached the bottom, and a sort of quiescent period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

If John Berwick was quiescent on the inside of the hack, Jim was on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference

This cautious, crafty, resourceful schemer becomes strangely quiescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The shallop was quiescent in a remarkable degree, and thoroughly tethered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Oil, so often the source of high drama, has been remarkably quiescent this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Profits End With a Whimper] Reference

For almost twenty-four hours that dreadful, unbeaten hopefulness would be quiescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Like a village fire brigade, adrenalin rushes madly about her previously quiescent body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler] Reference

Before the war he was a quiescent Islamic scholar in a long tradition of Shiite moderation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silent Sistani] Reference

Be the work grim or glorious, dread or divine, you have little choice left but quiescent adoption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Heard Island - bleak and mountainous, with a quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands - small and rocky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Fuji is at present quiescent; but Japan has some active volcanoes, and earthquakes are very frequent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Directly in front of us he seemed quiescent, but our orders were to get over the canal after nightfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

No strong, no vivid colours are here -- all is the quiescent modesty, the unobtruding magic of half-tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

Terrain: Heard Island - bleak and mountainous, with a quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands - small and rocky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Terrain: Heard Island -- bleak and mountainous, with a quiescent volcano; McDonald Islands -- small and rocky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

She supports her husband's decision to grant elections and a constitution to his politically quiescent nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Clinton, Stand Back] Reference

The growth gradually comes to a stop and the quiescent of the spot of light shows life in a state of suspense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

Tokyo's partners in Washington have long urged their quiescent allies to take a greater role in regional defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Alarm] Reference

She never knew how it was she did not shriek aloud, but instead managed to remain perfectly quiescent, unresisting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Frederick was still quiescent; France, Spain and Bavaria alone continued actively the struggle against Maria Theresa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

The trouble with the Northumberlander is, that so long as he is not the immediate victim of a hold up, he is quiescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

If Russia proves quiescent and the acute phase of the U.S. disaster is ending, any new CEO at BP still has much work to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP Needs More Than Voice Of America] Reference

The former, thirteen thousand feet in height, was in violent eruption, and the latter, ten thousand feet high, was quiescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

About the slope were scattered prostrate forms, most numerous near the bottom, some crawling slowly rearward, some quiescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

This is a purely temporary change, for the organ at once returns to its normal quiescent state as soon as it ceases to function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

It is desirable to have scions fresh and firm but in a quiescent condition until pushed into activity by the growth of the stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

All the movements of the 7th and 8th were made exactly as ordered, and the enemy seemed quiescent, acting purely on the defensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Glucose is brain food; active regions of the brain use more glucose than quiescent areas and so emit radioactivity, which PET detects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Matters] Reference

This study may be commenced in November after the deciduous trees have lost their leaves and have entered their quiescent winter period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

If their tumor seems to be quiescent and not changing over time, that's someone who can avoid all the problems associated with treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [When To Test For Prostate Cancer?] Reference