torpor

How To Use torpor In A Sentence

• Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
• That might sound worthy to the point of torpor, but this study of desperation and acute poverty is as tightly wound as a thriller. Times, Sunday Times
• Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
• Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
• After a soaring early winter, they lost altitude and backslid into Same Old Knicks-type torpor. Buzz Not All There for Knicks-Heat II
• But we do not accept this fate with the torpor of other city dwellers.
• She is living with them in conditions of domestic comfort but emotional torpor in White Point, a fishing community north of Perth.
• The occurrence of torpor varied with both season and sex: it was observed only in breeding season birds, and only female todies became torpid.
• And without me the school might sink into torpor. Passive acceptance would be the order of the day.
• But then slowly, inexorably, the great occasion descended into torpor - deliberately induced by a classic Brownite bombardment of figures, forecasts and the odd indisputable fact.