Torpor used in a sentence

Torpor in a sentence as a noun

" cried Andrea, who seemed roused from the torpor in which he had been plunged.

The rest of the time bats spend in that lowered heart rate and body temperature torpor state.

Hats off to enthusiastic contributors who shake us out of our torpor!

Then, when they eventually dragged themselves out of their customer service torpor - it got worse!

Silverlight, which was launched into a state of immediate torpor.

There’s an argument for trying to stick with movies/books/articles/etc you find difficult precisely to keep the mental torpor described at bay.

It's actually not a true hibernation, they go into extended torpor, they still wake occasionally to drink and mate with sleeping bats.

If you don't have to struggle to survive, many will lapse into a state of torpor because why not?Look how many people quit their jobs to travel around in a van and rock climb?

As well, the idea that we are morally superior to the past, in my personal view, a recipe for moral turpitude, and cultural torpor.

I have to be honest; while I enjoyed this article, I mainly upvoted it for the author's use of the phrase "shrimp-induced torpor," which elicited giggling from me in turn.

And nobody wants to waste time doing half of a non-sanctioned task, just to get dragged off to do something else when an urgent bug pops up, or marketing and design wake up from their post-crunch torpor.

If this peace is forced upon you, isn't it just a forced eternal torpor?And you've just shifted the problem of describing what is great about heaven to describing what is great about 'being in God's presence'.

When I said "kick the status quo", that doesn't mean they have any intentions of being better to drivers than taxi companies; but they still shook a broken system from its torpor and forced society to reevaluate it.

Working in a job with a higly varying time schedule and actually enjoying it, whereas regular hours Monday through Friday eventually always push me into torpor and quasi-depression.

I personally, recreationally, have been building RC flying machines since the 70's, and have recently returned to the subject after a decade or so of torpor, with renewed vigor only a pair of growing sons can provide.

Here's a quote that I haven't seen in this post so far:"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Hibernation or torpor is an exploitation of thermal dependency of regulation,providing on demand alternative physiological state.

The tragic quality of the group was also necessary, the quality that constantly raised the group out of the abandon and torpor into which it was prone to lapse, leading it to an ever-mounting shared suffering and so to death, which was the ultimate suffering.

The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.

The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.

The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life...

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.> The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.

However I’m a utilitarian at heart, if trading the rich only having 80 years keeps us from going into revolution or neufeudalism, I am will to accept that trade, even if I’m in the group who could probably afford said treatments.> But even the worst case scenario, when everything on earth belongs to old people, is actually good, because it means there is more incentive for other people to go explore other planets and stars!Or wealth could concentrate into few hands, and people could start binding themselves to richer patrons to guarantee access to life saving food and medicine, and the world descends into neufeudal torpor.