torpid

How To Use torpid In A Sentence

• One of the "brightest minds" in his class, he was one of the laziest; one of the quickest and most agile when aroused, he was one of the torpids as a rule: One of the kind who should have "gone in for honors," as the faculty said, he came nearer going out for devilment. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
• It was an impressive performance, especially when its two largest components, Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, both had a torpid year. The performance put the Irish market ahead of many of its peers.
• That activity has sent a formerly torpid property market soaring, with office rents, according to one study, more than doubling from 1996 to mid-1999.
• It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
• a mind grown torpid in old age
• He was aswim in darkness, a thick, torpid presence that pressed up against him, obstructing sight and sound. Masked
• This was a useful camouflage, as they were both cool, torpid, and temporarily unable to fly after their probably nightlong tryst.
• He led a strange torpid life in the week, doing nothing in the kitchen of the rectory, in a state of great sordidness. TESTIMONIES
• In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box.
• We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.