lie torpid
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In temperate climes lizards lie torpid and buried all winter; some species of the tropic deserts sleep peacefully all summer.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Castle, Egerton
After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual or sixpenny magazines.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
In winter they lie torpid, and in spring deposit their eggs about two inches beneath the earth's surface.
From Charley's Museum A Story for Young People by Unknown
The beautiful star-fish, with its five points, as equally, and regularly arranged, as though it had been done by the rule of the mathematician, with great worm-like molluscs, lie torpid on the white sand.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
They sleep, perhaps—like the creatures that hide themselves in the ground and lie torpid all the winter—but with one breath of the past they flame into life again.'
From Milly Darrell and Other Tales by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
