Sentence examples for may be dormant from inspiring English sources

During dry seasons, frogs may be dormant in a mud cocoon.

His only hope for a full recovery is a knee replacement, but doctors advise against it -- the bacteria that caused his gangrene may be dormant in his tissue, and more surgery might activate them and kill him.

Among predatory heteropterans, those whose prey is found on plants or in flowers winter as adults; those whose prey is found on the ground may be dormant as nymphs or adults.

The picture is a little less clear, however, if you factor in number of registered users, even if many may be dormant.

Price et al. demonstrate that the culprits responsible for such late metastasis may be dormant cancer cells hiding in perivascular niches.

However, critics say this figure only represents those who have merely signed up and may be dormant, as opposed to some estimates that put the figure of genuinely active investors at closer to 15,000 to 20,000 people.

Thus starved cells (or cells that have suffered other stresses) may or may not be dormant.

That can include using native grasses that may sometimes be dormant and brown, outlawing the use of carts and avoiding asphalt in favor of weathered wood for paths.

And women with known metastatic disease must not be thought of as different than those whose disease may just be dormant.

(And the fight is real: While kuru has faded and mad cow is contained, the number of people exposed to prion contamination over the years, who may now be dormant carriers, suggests we're headed down a road of pain and confusion in the future for which we have few medical tools).

In late relapses micrometastases may well be dormant for months or years and then begin to grow.