Sentence examples similar to torpid manner from inspiring English sources

Although migratory, Lesser Nighthawks are capable of responding to cold weather and depressed food resources by remaining torpid for relatively long periods in a manner reminiscent of hibernating mammals.

Ms. Moore's production has an intuitive feeling for the manner in which the play's characters can move between despair and hope, torpid depression and exuberance, with disarming fleetness.

To make torpid by removing sensation.

The days pass, easy and torpid.

Hollywood thrillers don't do torpid.

At this temperature the animals become torpid.

Full-time: Well that was torpid.

Categories melt in the torpid air.

People have a quiescent & torpid temperament, like the atmosphere.

We have devolved into a torpid nation of couch potatoes.

It was August, and the air was torpid.