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If there are any dripping taps then put that spanner that's been lying dormant in the toolbox to work.
Running down each side of the valley are mountain peaks dotted with dormant volcanoes.
A fortuitous recent result of asteroidal spectrography found that the object under observation was, in fact, a nearly dormant comet.
Hot water treatments are an effective way to control nematodes in dormant cormels of dasheen cultivars used for planting.
The buds are already dormant within the bulbs and the difference in size will affect the size of the flower.
When sold and planted in fall, bulbs are in a dormant state that makes them very easy to handle and ship.
Many of their early wildflowers and spring-blooming bulbs go dormant by Memorial Day, so they shrug off the dry summers.
The next day the hiking group drove south to Tongariro, a national park with a couple of dormant volcanoes, to do the tramp.
I started developing a bit of a swagger, a bullishness about my own tastes which had been dormant 'til then.
One species burrows into the sand and can remain dormant for years in times of drought.
Feed herbs once a week when plants are actively growing, but not when dormant.
Some broadleaf species appear dead after a fire but new sprouts quickly emerge from dormant buds in the root crown.
In 1984 Depue planted a dozen sprigs at Jacob's Fork, a mined mountain that had lain dormant for 20 years in McDowell County.
Substantial phytase activity was found both in embryonic axes and cotyledons of dormant hazel seeds.
Most gardeners buy dormant tubers, which are easier to grow than seed and less expensive than blooming plants.
If a meteor impact causes a nuclear winter, then the ability to lie dormant would have improved your chances.
If private credit is not used or rejected, then the operation of law which imposes the irrecusable obligation lies dormant and cannot apply.
If planting in the fall when dormant, cut back existing roots to about three inches.
Seeds of some species do not germinate when placed under conditions normally regarded as favourable to germination and are said to be dormant.
The banks believe that accounts should not be treated as dormant until they have been inactive for more than ten years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Her will seems to be roused there by the side of the marital will which is dormant.
The unmatured powers lying dormant had been aroused to full growth by the indwelling Spirit of God.
Latent psi-power, dormant and unused and unneeded and uninteresting for aeons.
Yet she wondered if the instinct were not dormant, needing but the suggestion.
But intuition, even if apparently dormant, may be cultivated by practice in these divinatory processes.
This oospore, or resting spore, may remain dormant in this state within the tissues of the foster plant for some months.
The dormant bodies of the great slugs glowed perceptibly brighter as they fed, and the pulsations of opalescence quickened.
Before this, however, there were symptoms of the reawakening of a dormant idea.
Possibly the doctor's prediction of insanity had lain dormant in some brain cell from which it was now emerging to frighten me.
The red corpuscle, his father's gift, though it lay dormant, subconsciously erected barriers.
Until that period, the reproductive system should lie dormant in its undeveloped state.
The brute in him recognized the dormant passions of his grandfather, now rekindling.
The cions should have been cut before this time, when they were perfectly dormant.
The softwood cutting is made from tissue which is still growing, or at least from that which is not dormant.
Thus it would appear that the artistic spirit, more or less dormant in Solutrean times, was revived.
But she had faint, ineradicable prejudices, and instincts not quite dormant.
Pray give her some stimulant to arouse her dormant faculties, if only for a moment.
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
Applied direct to the dormant buds of the sweet cherry, however, it proved toxic, as the buds never developed.
Like all other properties, this of luckiness may be cultivated or let to lie dormant, may be increased or diminished.
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