How To Use Languidly In A Sentence
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Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
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Here she will sit through the hour, gossiping with her friends, watching the antics of several beautiful, dubious women, camp followers of the rich, who add undoubted interest to the place; calling languidly to her dog: "_Viens, Tou-tou!
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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Then, as we travel more slowly through a shallow stretch of marsh, an alligator languidly lifts its body from its perch on a mudbank and slinks slowly into the water.
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The immense dumbbell-shape drew closer, almost languidly there out a wide-focus tractor beam, and anchored our two ships together.
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Everywhere women were hard at work, hanging out washing, harvesting, shelling walnuts, building hayricks or even making mud bricks to bake in the sun while the men stood about chatting languidly in every village or squatted together at the roadside wearing their traditional tall Kyrgyz hats of embroidered felt, the ak kalpak, or the ornate pillbox hats of the Uzbeks.
Wildwood
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But if these combined to pull out the winner, the real stars of the show were the ageless Tommy Turner, mopping up languidly at the back, and Ricky Gillies and Hugh Murray dominating in midfield.
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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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Her sandy tabby eyed her languidly from the typewritten sheets she had elected to stretch out on.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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The way she's kind of languidly making the point with her right index finger is priceless!
Posthuman Blues
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Her sandy tabby eyed her languidly from the typewritten sheets she had elected to stretch out on.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
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The days are spent writing music, swimming and reading while Dominic works in his studio, the evenings spent languidly in his arms in the warm evening air.
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It was a slow, pulsing rhythm that seemed to sway languidly in the air.
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Drawing his curricle up behind the brougham, Vane reined in his appetites along with his horses, and languidly descended to the verge.
A RAKE'S VOW
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The immense dumbbell-shape drew closer, almost languidly there out a wide-focus tractor beam, and anchored our two ships together.
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He swayed through gaps languidly, gliding into space.
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Laurel waved one hand languidly in the air before pulling a pencil from her bag and jotting notes into a small notepad.
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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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So she led him in by the arm to her tiny drawing-room; and he laid his hat and stick, and gray paletot, on her little marquetrie-table, and sat down, and looked languidly about him, with a sly smile, like a man amused.
Wylder's Hand
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I rolled onto my side and propped my cheek on one hand, watching him as he stretched languidly and opened the small drawer.
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The brown, breech-clouted Kanaka sailors moved languidly but quickly to head-sheets and boom-tackles.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
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It was a slow, pulsing rhythm that seemed to sway languidly in the air.
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We sat about languidly after dinner.
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She glanced up to see a familiar trim figure strolling languidly out of the entrance to the Members' Enclosure.
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Love Letters is a languidly paced drama that has moving moments and fine performances, and is well made.
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In fact he had broken off contact already and languidly pushed the linen hat farther across his upturned face.
THE QUEST FOR K
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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.
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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.
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In the midst of the horror and confusion of the household, the murderer slips out, goes home, and is resting calmly, thinking with intense delight of the splendid success of the plan, and of the extraordinary skill he had shown in its conception and execution; when, just as he was dropping off to sleep in delicious drowsiness, there "languidly" entered into his head this thought: it speaks to his mind in the third person, as though somebody else had actually said it: It is very possible that Dr. Kerzhentsev is really insane.
Essays on Russian Novelists
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The young librarian helped the fatigued-looking wine into the two glasses, where it lay as if thoroughly exhausted by the effort of getting there, and then languidly left the parlour, turning his bulging head over his shoulder to indulge in a pathetic _oeillade_ ere he vanished.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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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
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Fran didn't use deckchairs, just natty old towels upon which she languidly stretched as if she was on a feather bed.
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This showed a dark-suited gentleman, reclining languidly on a cushioned backrest, gazing through the eyepiece of an immense telescope.
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The city's 130,000 inhabitants chat languidly in doorways, grinning at locals and passing tourists.
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the men languidly put on their jackets
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“He nuzzled his face against mine until he found my lips, then he kissed me, slow and gentle, the flow of molten rock swelling languidly in the dark at the center of the earth, until my shaking slowed.” and
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She languidly draws herself up to a sitting position.
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A heavily veiled lady, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rose languidly from a seat and greeted him in a clear, penetrating voice.
Literature
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A lovely bribe," languidly, "but don't hurry, for mother and I are leaving to-morrow.
The Fighting Shepherdess
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There sat a very large, intricately worked silver tankard, around the base of which languidly lay a thin aristocratic-looking hand.
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He was pensively turning one of the pieces in his hand, a crinolined woman wearing a beribboned bonnet languidly weeding a gulden path with a slender hoe.
The Lighthouse
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He rose languidly from the broken rail; my brother offered him his shoulder to lean on; he placed the little white hand there, and was led into the house.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Clothed in black, half reclining on a couch, his elbows resting upon pillows, the Prince was languidly touching the chords of his guitar; he ceased this when he saw the grand ecuyer enter, and, raising his large eyes to him with an air of reproach, swayed his head to and fro for a long time without speaking.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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In one, as yet unnamed piece, a woman sits languidly daydreaming, her leg dangling over John's fireplace.
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Never did a monarch hold so steadfastly to a deadly purpose, or proceed so languidly and with so much circumvolution to his goal.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II
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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.
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She stared languidly at him over her small serving of honeydew melon and toast.
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Only Sit-aken-te was there, and the lanky young woman waved languidly at Peri from where she was immersed up to her neck in cool water.
Aerie
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Ponder- It just kind of deliciously pops languidly out of my mouth.
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Built to support logs in the fireplace and poised atop delicately foliated bases, each displays a golden dromedary with neck arched languidly backwards.
At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures
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He adjusted his impeccable tweed jacket and thought languidly for a moment about the enigmatic but passionate kiss Sophie had planted on his lips before leaving an hour earlier.
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Perceiving that the tears are hurrying fast, she unpins her strings and throws them languidly backward, a touching gesture, indicative, even in the deepest gloom, of the hope in future dry moments when cap-strings will once more have a charm.
VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles. Book I—Boy and Girl
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The day had been bright until then, but we'd noticed a bank of fog building up steadily on the outside of the island chain, flopping its forelock languidly over the mountain ridges, waiting for a breeze to give it a leg up.
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She languidly draws herself up to a sitting position.
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Once at a cocktail do in one of the vast reception areas where archdukes had cavorted, he languidly asked me to fetch him a canapé.
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You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.
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Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
