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How to use listlessness in a sentence

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Doctors do not know how many relapsed into mental listlessness or took the extreme step.
And now there is this sense of listlessness, this lack of initiative and disorientation, now that no one is giving orders.
Possible reactions to immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus and pertussis include fever, vomiting, and listlessness.
While it can be effectively treated with antibiotics, depression and listlessness can persist for some time.
But can't we have a little listlessness in our lives, some sloth, a dollop or two of drowsiness?
For example, schizophrenia often is characterized by a deficit syndrome that includes anhedonia, listlessness, and general impoverishment of thought, speech, and affect.
A jump rope twined around a girl's leg describes the listlessness and boredom of a late summer day, as does a gangly teen lazily holding a baseball bat.
In this story, Teddy remembers the boredom, short tempers, and listlessness of the campers until his Dad convinced the community to unite in constructing a baseball field.
Self-examination will reveal a wealth of master traits slumbering beneath a weight of listlessness.
In the short term, such measures seem to have succeeded: the student movement has quietened down, and there is listlessness in the air.
But most of the pre-revolutionary 1970s were conspicuous for their listlessness, too.
It advises using it before competitions to correct listlessness and sleep disruption, and afterwards to improve physical recovery.
The early signs of drowsiness, listlessness, and headaches should be recognized to prevent terminal coma and convulsions.
Signs of internal bleeding are listlessness, unconsciousness, very cold legs or a blue tinge to the pink skin inside the lips or tongue.
With the lemon aroma-essence you have an additional advantage: the citrus fragrance helps against fatigue, listlessness or even depressed mood.
One is listlessness and drift, as discipline crumbles, morale plummets and ideas dry up.
This may lead to listlessness, lack of performance, dull coat and a susceptibility to infection.
Double vision or listlessness of the eyelid: These side effects are due to the anesthetic and last only a few days.
They will have praise on their lips for blessings received, instead of listlessness and despair over their situation.
Still, it seems as though we humans are more comfortable around the humanoid variety, their listlessness notwithstanding.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The man who has a habit of dawdling or listlessness will show it in everything he does.
Here there was no room for listlessness, and quite as little for happiness.
There was courage in that, I saw, for all the listlessness of the tone in which it had been uttered.
Gaming relieved me from that insuperable listlessness by which I was oppressed.
In short, I had passed a happy day, a day of listlessness and of liberty.
It came on gradually, in a kind of listlessness and want of appetite.
The maid pulled the hay from her, her mistress submitting with the supine listlessness of a dying animal.
But now of a sudden Sir Oliver's listlessness was all dispelled.
There was a good deal of excitement, alternated with listlessness.
A listlessness had come upon me, and I obeyed the pointing finger.
Although he could not fail to notice the languor in her face and the listlessness of all her movements, he was relieved to find that she met him with perfect composure.
It was not, perhaps, this which gave him that air of listlessness.
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart.
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