Nearly all plants go dormant during the winter.

The scientists say the insects lay dormant, feeding on tree roots and slowly growing underground.

In each of us there lies a dormant superhuman.

The cobbles lie dormant beneath a layer of asphalt.

At the end of the sleep the dormant awakes.

Mt. Asama is now dormant.

The fire which seems extinguished is often dormant under the cinders; whoever wants to revive it may be in for a surprize.

Meredith picks a tiny patch of green moss from between clumps of tall brown grass gone dormant with the fall chill. “Look at all these little bits of biodiversity,” she said. “That’s like a little fantasy world going on in there.”

Volcanoes can be active, dormant, or extinct.

The project envisions a future where human explorers can bring a compact habitat built out of a lightweight material with dormant fungi that will last on long journeys to places like Mars. Upon arrival, by unfolding that basic structure and simply adding water, the fungi will be able to grow around that framework into a fully functional human habitat – all while being safely contained within the habitat to avoid contaminating the Martian environment.