languish

How To Use languish In A Sentence

• A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
• 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.
• His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
• Pearl funds are not the only ones to languish. Times, Sunday Times
• Back in the late 1970s it languished at motoring's base camp, keeping company with much more mundane marques.
• The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
• Up to 190,000 people will be left to languish on bail for lengthy periods despite a government crackdown, according to official forecasts. Times, Sunday Times
• As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
• Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.