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How to use languidly in a sentence

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The trees across the river flapped about in the rising wind, their broad leaves languidly enfolding one another, and then the blessed rain came.
Tropical fish moved languidly behind plate glass, while behind another panel of plate glass kitchen staff were at work with somewhat more vigour.
In one, as yet unnamed piece, a woman sits languidly daydreaming, her leg dangling over John's fireplace.
This showed a dark-suited gentleman, reclining languidly on a cushioned backrest, gazing through the eyepiece of an immense telescope.
You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.
He presented it to an only languidly entertained neighborhood as a trouvaille of his own choice.
The city's 130,000 inhabitants chat languidly in doorways, grinning at locals and passing tourists.
There sat a very large, intricately worked silver tankard, around the base of which languidly lay a thin aristocratic-looking hand.
Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
Laurel waved one hand languidly in the air before pulling a pencil from her bag and jotting notes into a small notepad.
She stretched languidly on the soft feather bed and imagined the duke sitting there again, just watching her, smiling at the sight of her asleep.
I rolled onto my side and propped my cheek on one hand, watching him as he stretched languidly and opened the small drawer.
Love Letters is a languidly paced drama that has moving moments and fine performances, and is well made.
Fran didn't use deckchairs, just natty old towels upon which she languidly stretched as if she was on a feather bed.
I had a nanny who happened to be an opium addict, and who would lock herself in the room, with me, aged 1.5, and languidly chase the dragon.
She stared languidly at him over her small serving of honeydew melon and toast.
Turkish soldiers sat by their vehicles in the twilight languidly chatting or cooking.
A girl with a pink Mohawk was standing languidly behind the tiny counter.
He is still a charming talker who looks you straight in the eye as he languidly spins out his stories about growing up in Mexico, which he considers his spiritual home.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Anglo-Indian crushed the letter into his pocket, and looked up languidly.
At the same time, Classical Latin literature continued to be languidly studied in the cloisters and the schools of grammar.
On the couch, languidly lost among the cushions, Winona Horning was abandoned in lazy attention.
Reeve-Howard was getting into his topcoat languidly, as he did everything else.
The refined outline sketches proffered by him were unenthusiastically surveyed and languidly discarded like so many wall-papers.
Naseby appeared, with stooping shoulders and a heavy, bilious countenance, languidly rising to the trot.
He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.
The hostess rose languidly, with a pallid, hollow-eyed look of illness.
I wave my hand, and the lady sinks half languidly into a fauteuil.
In the kitchen he found Jim, the other boarder, eating mush very languidly, with a sick, far-away look in his eyes.
Miss Blythe arose languidly and gave him the promised sixpence.
He found Holmes leaning languidly against the mantelpiece, resigned and patient, endeavouring to conceal his irrepressible yawns.
Louisa languidly leaned upon the window looking out, without looking at anything, while young Thomas stood sniffing revengefully at the fire.
It made a small frightened cheep like a field mouse, and he wondered languidly if it were hurt.
Mrs. yammer crossed her hands languidly upon her lap and sighed.
He listened to the man expounding the slave-morality, and as he listened, he thought languidly of his own Nietzsche philosophy.
Of all things in the world, Madame Mantalini,' said the lord's intended, throwing herself languidly on a sofa, 'I hate being waited upon by frights or elderly persons.
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