| When the water evaporates, the crocodiles estivate, or pass the summer in a kind of torpor. |
| The chorus has that air of resigned lethargy and torpor which regularly lowers over those with little or no hope. |
| The grass snake is less active during the winter, and this condition is often referred to as torpor. |
| Montrealers are ruminating on the uncharacteristic torpor that has struck since Christmas. |
| Indeed, if they find themselves restrained by a new gripping torpor, they will soon weary of being part of the EU family. |
| She is living with them in conditions of domestic comfort but emotional torpor in White Point, a fishing community north of Perth. |
