Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of May.
The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
The others have suffered torpid economic growth in the past decade.
It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if His mind grows torpid in old age Samuel Johnson.
the fervent ly communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems- Nathaniel Hawthorne; set the fervid heat subsides- Frances Trollope.