Usage examples (28)

• He agrees the government has responded "torpidly."
• Disappointment washed through its mind as the man turned at the call of another of its kind and ran torpidly back toward the lights.
• After which she dropped back once more into the lethargy of weakness, painfully conscious of the fact that relief was only to be found in lying torpidly still and silent.
• So the night drew on with the men and dogs sleeping torpidly; with the old Wolf chuckling grimly as the shadows closed about him, and with the child in the cold above...