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How to use listlessly in a sentence

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I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.
When the sun fell in through the curtains of his bedroom window the next morning, she smiled listlessly.
Goats, oxen and others wandered listlessly amongst the scattered waste and detritus.
Skip ahead six months and the couple have retired and live listlessly as beach bums.
I watch my hand creep traitorously to the door, listlessly wondering when it got so bad that I can't even say no to him anymore.
The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly.
Instead, the children sit listlessly in the shade of the only tree in the yard, shuffling their feet, drawing lines in the sand, and dozing.
They meandered listlessly though the crowd and Spade accidentally bumped into someone.
He was bowling like an ordinary medium-pacer and the fielders were moving around listlessly.
Money-changers, slumped in chairs in the immigration hall, ask listlessly if any tourist bus is waiting to cross.
If a kid stands somewhat listlessly alone, with raised hairs on an arched back, staring straight ahead, then it has not had any milk that day.
Daphne White listlessly pushes her tater tots around her plate.
In it, she stares out at an empty Malibu beach, plunges into an infinity pool, and lies listlessly in the sun.
To be sure, the victory parade was impressive, but for nearly an hour the would-be victors had wandered listlessly around the back streets before finding a short cut to glory.
I held the phone listlessly to my ear until I registered a dial tone.
The children nap and watch television while the parents sit listlessly by the filthy pool and demand more ice for their drinks from harried servants.
I dropped the curling iron onto the counter, finally satisfied with the ringlets that fell primly about my shoulders, and listlessly studied my reflection.
It will not do for individuals listlessly to await official action, nor should organizations hold back pending demands upon them.
Clicking his tongue, breathing heavily, standing listlessly and with a dull-witted look on his face at times, he couldn't even keep himself from yawning.
The youths hanging round the fountain, or drifting listlessly from chip shop to pub to street corner, have no sense of ownership of the history that made their town.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A herd of varicolored cows and steers were foraging listlessly or switching tails in what remained of the oat field.
When he walked listlessly into Carlisle it was through the Botcher-gate on the south.
The poor Otaheitean stared listlessly for a moment at the huge cupola, and ran into a toyshop to play with beads.
Aunt Jemima had bestirred herself, and was moving listlessly about the house.
Angelique had listened to all this calmly, with her hands listlessly clasped in her lap.
He walked aft and, placing himself in a deckchair, gazed listlessly at the stolid figure of the helmsman.
Also it's safe to draw a sundowner sitting listlessly on a bench on the veranda, reading the Bulletin.
Already the woman's naturally tall figure had begun to droop and to drag itself listlessly about.
In one hand she listlessly held a long spray of stephanotis.
Nevertheless, the game was unexciting, and dragged listlessly.
She had taken up her painting, only to put it listlessly to one side.
She passed listlessly out, and down the path toward the gulf.
The boy got up and climbed listlessly into the cultivator seat.
She nodded assent, listlessly, evidently preoccupied with something else.
Lucy picked up the book and glanced at the title listlessly, Under a Loggia.
She turned on the piano stool, her hands dropped listlessly in her lap.
The other apes of the tribe of Kerchak moved listlessly about or lolled restfully in the midday heat of the equatorial jungle.
Some lean lazily against the side-posts, humming to themselves or calling to the passer-by in a raucous voice, and some listlessly read.
Pontellier also occupied her former position on the upper step, leaning listlessly against the post.
At dawn she got up and went listlessly and sat down on the cable coil again.
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