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How to use languishing in a sentence

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If it holds, the staycation bandwagon will be a powerful boost to domestic tourism operators languishing in the economic downturn.
Its officers were no longer languishing in the boondocks, but were an influential part of the Washington scene.
They have made the big names look bland and left them languishing in the purlieus of the department store.
According to a parliamentary clerk, there are over a thousand bills languishing before the National Assembly.
After languishing in an anti-fashion no man's land for a good 10 years, the cocktail enjoyed a renaissance in the early Nineties.
This campaign helps make a difference to ease the suffering of so many innocent people languishing in prison.
He has now been granted a breathing space which he must use to improve his party's languishing poll ratings.
The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle.
And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
Given her five years languishing in rah-rah roles, Christensen was happy to unleash her inner bad girl.
I have seen children all over the world languishing for love, and care, and giving.
I know for a fact that there are simply far too many good Kiwi websites that are languishing through lack of adequate promotion.
Both are at home against teams languishing near the bottom, and both need maximum points to count themselves in to the final week.
Motorists were left languishing in queuing traffic for hours as the knock-on effects of roadworks on Millbrook Road took their toll.
What's the betting that you've a rig-out that's seen the light of day once and has since been languishing in your wardrobe?
After years languishing in the backwaters of the world's stock markets, the wildcatters are back in business.
Thousands of other sick people languishing on transplant waiting lists across the country are not so lucky.
Many crafts are languishing due to having to compete against industrially manufactured goods.
Rather than languishing in rates paying derisory interest, these sums can be made to work hard for the business.
A year later, when I met him, he was languishing in the bureaucracy of our government.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then the weapon fell from the hand of the odalisk, and the madly-distended eyes and lips resumed their languishing smile.
A forehead impudent, and two eyes which turned up most seraphically languishing.
The bandolero was languishing in the third reactive stage of malignant cholera.
No fellow ever did dance so well as Tripletoe, or looked half so languishing.
It is tough on criminals and supportive of police, and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now.
While the war was languishing in the North it was being carried on with vigor in the South.
His slightly ruddied neck rose proudly and freely, but in the animation of his blue eye was blended a languishing expression, betokening him one that longed to.
Already languishing from sheer fatigue, must she now famish also?
All was languishing, and the King went away some time after.
Nearly every one of my correspondents have been lagging and languishing.
But for many years the church lived only a languishing life.
Entering the conservatory next, they discovered Cecilia's sister languishing among the flowers in an easy chair.
It was languishing in a small zoo in Pescasseroli, a town in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
Sparsit, hiding in the window curtain, saw him languishing down the street on the shady side of the way, observed of all the town.
This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.
She curtsies with a languishing air, as if to say, 'You are come at last.
If he had expected to find her languishing, reproachful, or indulging in sentimental tears, he must have been greatly surprised.
Her gaze was attracted to some potted roses languishing in a corner.
She was pale and fair, with long curls falling in profusion over her shoulders, had large, blue, languishing eyes, rosy lips, and hands of alabaster.
And now from underneath the catafalque, so it seemed, there rose a low sweet sound of flutes, which, coming unbroken by human voice, had a soft and languishing effect.
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