TORPID in a Sentence
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Example sentences for TORPID, such as:
1. The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
2. His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech.
3. He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
2. His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech.
3. He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
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Meanings and Examples of TORPID
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torpid
a. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
a. slow and apathetic
Classic Sentence:
1 The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
2 He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
3 Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.
4 He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
5 Jimmy, under generous influences, felt the buried zeal of his father wake to life within him: he aroused the torpid Routh at last.
6 His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech.
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