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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of TORPID
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torpid
 a.  having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed
Classic Sentence:
1  The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
5  Jimmy, under generous influences, felt the buried zeal of his father wake to life within him: he aroused the torpid Routh at last.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
6  His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
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