Sample Sentences for
torpor
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    And within five minutes, the class had sunk back into its usual torpor.  (source)
    torpor = lack of energy and enthusiasm
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    At the sight of another human being my torpor passed, and I leaned out of the window eagerly.  (source)
    torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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    At length the death-stricken old man lay quietly in the torpor of mental and bodily exhaustion, with an imperceptible pulse, and breath that grew fainter and fainter, except when a long, deep, and irregular inspiration seemed to prelude the flight of his spirit.  (source)
    torpor = inactivity
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    They slept much of the time and often did nothing, in animal-like torpor.  (source)
    torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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    You must expunge yourself of this … this torpor.  (source)
    torpor = a state of low-energy and inactivity
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    Miss Avocet stayed on, emerging from her torpor now and then to wander the halls, calling out forlornly for her poor abandoned wards before slumping into someone's arms to be taken back to bed.  (source)
    torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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    Now, Vivaldo, who was accustomed himself to labor, to be the giver of the gift, and enter into his satisfaction by means of the satisfaction of a woman, surrendered to the luxury, the flaming torpor of passivity, and whispered in Eric's ear a muffled, urgent plea.  (source)
    torpor = rest or inactivity
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    Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.  (source)
    torpor = state of sluggishness or low energy
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    Delegate William Hooper of North Carolina, another signer of the Declaration of Independence, described a prevailing "torpor" in Congress.  (source)
    torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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    The town, under the stimulus of the holidays and the returning students, had wakened momentarily from its winter torpor: warm brisk currents of life seethed over the pavements.  (source)
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    Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room.  (source)
    torpor = deep sleep or unconsciousness
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    He was soggily sleepy, after two country drives on muddy roads, and in his torpor he gave her an overdose of strychnin, which so shocked and stimulated her that she decided to be well.  (source)
    torpor = a state of low-energy
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    The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness.  (source)
    torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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