Sentence examples for it became passive from inspiring English sources

Sure enough, when a mother grabbed a pup, its heart rate plunged, vocalizations stopped, and it became passive and assumed the compact posture.

"It was embarrassing, the players became passive.

Among patients with spontaneous respiratory activity at baseline, all of them maintained it during low TV ventilation, while six of them became passive during high TV ventilation.

It was confirmed by interviews that participants in certain exercises became passive because of overambitious, unstructured, and messy exercises (Powley and Nissen 2012).

Because it had become passive, failed to raise its voice; and especially because it had handed meekly to Caesar and Sulla the power of the pursestrings.

People gave up and became passive".

They stopped setting goals for themselves and became passive.

"I grabbed him and was slapping at the flames, and he immediately became passive," said Dr. Thomas H. McGlashan, the man's therapist.

Television altered the way stories were delivered - instead of people taking an active role in storytelling, they became passive consumers.

"We were aggressive in the first quarter and then they were aggressive and we became passive.

Physicians' dominance diminished respondents' willingness to be involved and they became passive.