How do you use Torpid in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like inert or sluggish, plus the exact meaning.
Torpid in a sentence
Torpid meaning
- unmoving
- dormant or hibernating
- lazy, lethargic or apathetic
Using Torpid
- The main meaning on this page is: unmoving | dormant or hibernating | lazy, lethargic or apathetic
- Useful related words include: inert, sluggish, soggy, inactive.
- In the example corpus, torpid often appears in combinations such as: the torpid.
Context around Torpid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Torpid
- In this selection, "torpid" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, insensible, half, teen, liver and 2010 stand out and add context to how "torpid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a torpid liver and and economy is torpid the government. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "torpid" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with torpid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A torpid liver, and two or three day’s sickness, with a doctor’s bill thrown in, follows. (18 words)
The economy is torpid, the government is still mucking things up for everyone and another Brexit cliff edge looms next Christmas. (21 words)
They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crop bulges, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food. (21 words)
Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless". (40 words)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (not to be confused with the torpid 2010 remake), contains all these innocent elements, alongside its dark slasher storyline about a deceased child-murderer now hunting teenagers within their dreams. (35 words)
Shields tells us that she felt dangerously dissociated during the filming of the big sex scene in “Endless Love,” the torpid teen romance she made in 1981, and watching it you can tell. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
Shields tells us that she felt dangerously dissociated during the filming of the big sex scene in “Endless Love,” the torpid teen romance she made in 1981, and watching it you can tell.
After a string of poor results and a group stage exit from the Copa América during which the US somehow looked both tempestuous and torpid, this was positive.
A torpid liver, and two or three day’s sickness, with a doctor’s bill thrown in, follows.
The economy is torpid, the government is still mucking things up for everyone and another Brexit cliff edge looms next Christmas.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (not to be confused with the torpid 2010 remake), contains all these innocent elements, alongside its dark slasher storyline about a deceased child-murderer now hunting teenagers within their dreams.
Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless".
They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crop bulges, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food.
Common combinations with torpid
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: