languid

How To Use languid In A Sentence

• Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
• I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
• Effortlessly unravelling the twists and turns of medieval Italian politics, Stonor Saunders is stylish in her prose style, languid in her learning and acerbic in her judgments.
• He is a marvellous sight on the course, languid but long. Times, Sunday Times
• They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera. Travels through France and Italy
• Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
• And with a languid snap of his heels, he was off, his curled hair swaying ridiculously on his head.
• Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
• The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
• It is languid, thought provoking and compulsively interesting, but, much like its poster, it won't be the most exciting film at the multiplex.