Sentence examples for becoming dormant from inspiring English sources

Some, however, have become adapted to totally aquatic habitats; others have become adapted to alternately wet and dry environments by growing during wet periods and becoming dormant during dry intervals.

Becoming dormant means you live to fight another day.

Raccoons overcome winter food shortages by becoming dormant.

Either the cells shed by the tumor are killed, or they stop dividing, becoming dormant.

It dries up a bit as it travels through the air, the cellular material inside becoming dormant so it survives until it reaches the humid environment of another flower's stigma.

Indeed, box office sales were torpid in June and were re-energized for just a few weeks in July with the release of "The Perfect Storm" and "X-Men" before becoming dormant again in August and September.

We become dormant, and fall asleep.

After that, the old armory sat dormant, becoming the target of vandals, who stripped it of, among other items, its copper roof gutters and drains, leaving it vulnerable to damage from rain.

Because fork slowing reduces the rate at which dormant origins are passively replicated by adjacent origins, the probability of a dormant origin becoming active increases when replication forks slow [10].

However, as Jinzhen becomes drawn into a strange, anonymous and shadowy world of espionage, he finds his dormant mental issues becoming more of a problem for him, and the novel takes on a different hue altogether.

He described how such viruses, found in the lump of lymph tissue at the back of the nose, also called the adenoid, often remained dormant before gradually becoming infectious.