Definition of Torpor

the state of being motionless or inactive

Examples of Torpor in a sentence

After overeating on Christmas, I fell into a satisfied torpor.  🔊

Hopefully the stock market will rise from its torpor and reach a year-end high.  🔊

If my husband does not come out of his torpor and get a job, I will divorce him.  🔊

Many voters are in political torpor and rarely go to the polls.  🔊

During the winter, the bears fall into an intense torpor.  🔊

The news of her husband’s death put April in an emotional torpor.  🔊

After a five-year torpor, the singer released a new album.  🔊

The stimulus checks helped to bring the economy out of torpor.  🔊

Before the gunshot victim came out of a coma, he was in torpor for two weeks.  🔊

Because business has been in torpor for eight months, Edward has to lay off several employees.  🔊

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