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torpid

How to use torpid in a sentence

They were torpid, as you or I might be if we’d spent a long period locked-down and socially isolated.

Cheng thinks modern ballots are “boring” and “graphically torpid.”

Torpid as Spain had become, there was still one point on which she was exquisitely sensitive.

I did not forget to mention the Companies, but find people, as I expected, torpid.

Its indolence, and anger at the stirring of inward strife by nature, caused it to assume a torpid indifference.

Professor Smawl ate heavily and retired to her tent to lie torpid until evening.

His torpid head fell back on the chair, and his outstretched hands hung lifeless, yellow, and rigid on his knees.

But if these lay like bivalves, torpid and content, another and more active element had awoke in the throng.

I read a poem of melancholy, I saw perpetual activity in the heart I had accused of being torpid.

HONORINEHONORE DE BALZAC

Consequently the soul still remains depressed and bowed down, cold and torpid, in front of Intelligence.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985