The phrase "appears dormant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that seems inactive or not currently functioning, often in contexts related to nature, technology, or business.
Example: "The project appears dormant, as there have been no updates or progress reports in several months."
Alternatives: "seems inactive" or "looks unresponsive".
The D'Oyly Carte folded in 1982; though it later had a sputtering revival, it now appears dormant.
Those two also rarely passed up an opportunity to provoke their audiences, a tendency that once lived on in Farrell and Jane's Addiction but now appears dormant.
While the plant appears dormant above the ground the flower stalk which will start to grow in the following spring, develops within the bulb surrounded by two to three deciduous leaves and their sheaths.
He seems settled and happy as a father, husband and teammate, his wanderlust appearing dormant for now.
As you can see in Helene's photographs, the plants have taken on a certain Southern spookiness; like an abandoned haunted house with an unseen force within it, the plants appear dormant, but not lifeless. .
In contrast, Panc-1/BAI1 cell implantation resulted in a significantly lower level of vascularity and the tumour appeared dormant after 2 weeks.
Comparison of the abundance of the three repeats between Str. pneumoniae clinical isolates and closely related species indicates that there was a past burst of repeat element movement in the genome of ancestors, but now, they appear dormant and their abundance is diminishing (Croucher et al. 2011).
These children appear psychologically broken from the start, and when their mother, Julie, played with emotional reserve by Kathryn Erbe, appears, long-dormant tensions explode.
Oversized disco balls hang from giant excavators, decommissioned machines from a steel age long past appear now dormant.
If there is a tortured soul inside her — as, at some point, there must have been, since she talks openly about a psychotic break and a suicide attempt — it appears to be dormant.
The core is surrounded by a silicate mantle that formed many of the tectonic and volcanic features on the planet, but it now appears to be dormant.
