Torpid

"Torpid" in a Sentence (2 examples)

When it gets cold, the turtles become torpid.

In our first year I had seen him coming away from Blackwell's clutching a great textbook of chemistry with an air of anticipatory delight, and also on the river as cox of one of the Lincoln torpids.

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