Sample Sentences for
torpid
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    Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.  (source)
    torpid = inactive (sluggish)
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    He sat there, torpid, sweating, and tongue-tied, as, after the manner of the famous program, his life was sketchily reviewed.  (source)
    torpid = slow or inactive
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    The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system.  (source)
    torpid = dormant or lifeless
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    He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.  (source)
    torpid = slow
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    I could remember staring torpidly through these windows a hundred times out at the elms of the Center Common.  (source)
    torpidly = with little energy
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    Many are not so stealthy and gradual as we may be apt to imagine in considering the general torpidity of a moor or waste.†  (source)
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    "Don't be a stranger, eh?" he said, which was the same thing he'd always said when I was a little kid and my mother came to pick me up after sleepovers— same torpid voice, just a half beat too slow.†  (source)
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    The main street was wide enough for traffic, but behind it lay a labyrinth of passages through which a few villagers—veiled women, men in robes and keffiyehs, barefoot children—moved torpidly in the heat.†  (source)
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    Their torpidity, under the influence of sunshine and Mother Council, had given way to a sort of spasmodic cheerfulness, as insects in winter revive when laid on the hearth.†  (source)
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    By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler's mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss.†  (source)
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    The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.†  (source)
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    Once the body is fully immersed, there is a torpid peace.†  (source)
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    He could hear no buzzing as the torpid gatherers went about their work.†  (source)
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