Sentence example with the word 'languish'

languish

abate, come apart, decrease, disintegrate, erode, fizzle out, hit the skids, peter out, run low, touch bottom, wilt

Definition v. lose vigor

Last update: June 4, 2017


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The value of gold is languishing.   [verb]

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While I don’t normally enjoy being out in the sun, if I have to languish somewhere hot all day, I choose Hawaii.    [verb]

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Are you going to languish in bed all Spring Break or do you plan on going outside and enjoying the sunlight?   [verb]

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So they starve and languish and fall sick, as did this young man's wife.   [verb]

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After the 20 mile run, I was expecting to languish.   [Please select]

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I was expecting to be languish after my 9 mile run.   [Please select]

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I languish for Fareham House--my basset-table, my friends, my watermen to waft me to and fro between Blackfriars and Westminster, the mercers in St.   [verb]

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Cooper Climent's business continued to languish, and he died in a state of poverty.   [verb]

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His predecessors had let the magnificently traced itineraries of the Romans languish and become covered with grass--if not actually timber-grown.   [verb]

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I am so accustomed to constant activity, perfect freedom, and a stirring exchange of thought, that I should languish and die in the confinement of a harem.   [verb]

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"And people languish in the most terrible torture till death ends their suffering," added Cleopatra, in a tone of grave reproof.   [verb]

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