How To Use Languish In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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Pearl funds are not the only ones to languish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back in the late 1970s it languished at motoring's base camp, keeping company with much more mundane marques.
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The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
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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
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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
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Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
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Briefly, I'm inundated with other matters, which also explains why so many e-mails are languishing in the ‘To Be Answered’ folder.
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Patients are languishing on trolleys in record numbers as ministers disagree with doctors about whether people have any alternative to attending overcrowded A&E units.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many languish unseen in studio vaults, in the holdings of amateur and professional archivists and at the Library of Congress.
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The team is languishing in sixth place in the constructors' championship with one race to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
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He stuck their faces on giant billboard ads across the country, only to suffer the ignominy of their returns languishing at the bottom of the performance tables.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man.
The Sun
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The Bulls now languish mid table after dropping both of their Easter weekend matches against the competition's top two clubs.
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Aside from all this, a linden tree languishes at the inside corner of the last dogleg, just at the turn of the river, blocking the direct route to the green.
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The UK is languishing in 37th place in the world when it comes to the proportion of the population who are computer engineers.
The Sun
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People who are currently languishing in prison are potential assets to society.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
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The countryside languishes in poor countries, in part because it is underpopulated.
Cowen, Clark, and Malthus, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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John has been languishing over a promotion for many years.
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No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
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Thousands of other sick people languishing on transplant waiting lists across the country are not so lucky.
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About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages.
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The 29.5lb predator gave Brockhole's maintenance manager Don Hunt a ‘big surprise’ as he found the fish languishing on the lake shore.
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Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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Make wise and judicious use of resources, without waste, but use them; do not allow them to languish untapped.
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Our project languished during the holidays.
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That was obviously not the opinion of Ann Sadler's friends when they brought this case to the attention of the court, nor does it seem to be her opinion- she 'languished' for several days before dying.
Archive 2008-08-01
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From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries.
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The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart.
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We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
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Decemo had closed his door firmly, so languishing glances availed them nothing.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Schools in such deprived areas as Drumchapel languish near the bottom reaches of the system, if you rely purely on the percentages of pupils passing Higher and Standard Grade exams.
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And Boavista, who are languishing 40 points below Porto in 10th spot in the league, have only scored more league goals this season than one side, Sporting Braga.
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Wednesday may be languishing in eighteenth place, but have won six of their past eight league games.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power.
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It takes me a tick to spot the chestnutcoloured croc languishing on a sandbank.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a time full of lessons for those who day to day languish under the oppressive yoke of capitalism.
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Wednesday may be languishing in eighteenth place, but have won six of their past eight league games.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is not a business that is moving forwards but one that is languishing and going sideways,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish.
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Since the war the industry has gradually languished.
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Once the leader in polls here, he now languishes in fourth place and is given no chance of winning.
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Symphony #4 was finished in 1934 but languished unplayed until 1967, five years before the composer's death.
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After storming out of the academy, it appeared he would be doomed forever to languish in the ranks of domestic cricket and any chance of representing his country was gone.
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We watch key centres - such as Sydney - grow almost in spite of themselves while other cities languish in a global world which doesn't much care what the place used to be, only what it can become.
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The aircraft has been languishing in a hangar on a wartime airfield at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire where enthusiasts have so far raised £400,000 to keep it well-maintained.
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Motorists were left languishing in queuing traffic for hours as the knock-on effects of roadworks on Millbrook Road took their toll.
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Still, Jeter has used it for his at-bat song of late, as well as Philadelphia has no equivalent swat stars, with many of a citys tip bent carrying languished for years upon you guessed it Jay-Zs old label, Roc-A-Fella Records.
Archive 2009-10-01
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They should loan much more to the regions, and more regularly display objects that too often languish in the vaults.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore as things that have a good smell recall the spirits of those that are faint, so bread affects those that are almost overcome with a bulimy; not that they have any need of food (for the least piece of it restores them their strength), but the bread calls back their vigor and languishing spirits.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Two goals in each half from the league leaders saw Newry brushed aside with consummate ease and keeps the City languishing near the bottom of the table.
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It should always be remembered that anyone languishing in prison for a crime he did not commit is most certainly a victim.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lugubrious Scouser does his best, but who can blame him for that hangdog expression, with Coventry City languishing in the wrong half of the table and the shares that once made him a multi-millionaire delisted by the Stock Exchange?
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West Ham United are currently languishing at the bottom of the league.
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But if you've got one languishing at the back of a cupboard, pull it out and try the pizza dough programme.
The Sun
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Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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DVDs, video games, paperbacks, housewares, unopened toiletries, unopened energy bars, even unused bellybutton rings: If it might have otherwise languished in a basement, closet, cabinet or drawer — or ended up at Goodwill in exchange for a teensy tax deduction — it's ripe for swapping.
Sign of the times: Going swapping, not shopping
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For companies with equity capital or revenue streams, government funds can be used to advance mainstream projects or to develop projects that could otherwise languish for lack of monetary resources.
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If her priority is to be with you - or at least to not be languishing in a blah marriage - then she should think of ways around these roadblocks.
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This is not a business that is moving forwards but one that is languishing and going sideways,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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He had languished in Lewes prison for more than a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prejudice is unsurprising; one of the inevitabilities of having to read more than a hundred novels concertinaed over a summer is that novels without much plot tend to languish.
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The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering,
Cecilia
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The team is languishing in sixth place in the constructors' championship with one race to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has been languishing in jail for the past twenty years.
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Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.
The Rape of Lucrece
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The e-mail you send will most definitely get more results than the one languishing in your drafts folder.
The Sun
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The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man.
The Sun
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Have you got one languishing somewhere, unused and unloved?
The Sun
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And while they are now finally in a permanent home, hundreds of Scottish children are left languishing in what adoption experts call a ‘planning limbo’.
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Is there a future for romance, the staple of many Latin American countries or will these movies languish brokenhearted in empty theaters whishing for at least an opening weekend?
Viviana Pendrill: Language Versus Culture In The Latin Film Industry
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He had languished in Lewes prison for more than a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Murk languishes in durance vile, someone decides to change the game.
19 « October « 2009 « Maria Lectrix
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Howard didn't know how long he'd languished, lost in misery.
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Pearl funds are not the only ones to languish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of thousands of animals languish in zoos around the world.
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And as the public sector grew, the private sector languished.
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Our three invalids, though, in spite of languishing in the shade and in one of the few airless parts of the front garden, produce plenty of blooms that are simply too beautiful to destroy.
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The old man languished in his grief after the death of his wife.
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A number of other high-profile members of the former regime are already languishing in the prison on similar corruption charges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of thousands of animals languish in zoos around the world.
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Patients are languishing on trolleys in record numbers as ministers disagree with doctors about whether people have any alternative to attending overcrowded A&E units.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leaves languished from lack of water.
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Plants that need moist soil will languish in sandy, dry soil, for example.
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The team is languishing in sixth place in the constructors' championship with one race to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they died by violent hands, and were thrust into their urns, these bones become considerable, and some old philosophers would honour them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and to retain a stronger propension unto them; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse and with faint desires of reunion.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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[T] he forty-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno ... by Alessandro Striggio languished throughout the twentieth century disguised as a nameless four-part Mass by Strusco.
For Choral Music aficionados
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The first half just languishes in light-hearted happenings that are anything but funny.
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“In respect of sicknesses, very long, languishing, and often sharp and violent, like the blows of inevitable death, yet was he both calm and submiss under all.”
Life of Dr Owen
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a broken heart languishes here
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These days it's home to a wine museum, but don't be surprised if you come across the odd life-sized model of a suitably forlorn prisoner languishing in a corner.
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The Hurricanes no longer have to languish near the bottom of the points table.
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However, we think anything is better than leaving patients to languish at home, too dysphoric and anergic to seek help.
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The Eagles were languishing in 18th place after a bleak winter with zero confidence left in the squad and relegation looked inevitable.
The Sun
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In an industry built on kitsch and cliché, acting ability often seems to languish in a distant fourth place.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle.
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This nondescript little gem across from Arizona Stadium has been languishing in relative obscurity for the last two years.
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I should do with this languishing dulcinea, should I deliver her from thraldom?
Camilla
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The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man.
The Sun
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Oh, clouded wilderness of death, into whose embrace we must all fall - you are the very essence of mystery and languishment.
Josh Rosenblatt: Notes From These Pajamas: The Diary of a Freelance Writer
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My last response from Walmart came on June 21st, & it was just a scripted message explaining that they can't cancel online orders in progress because their distributors usually ship things so quickly that it's impossible blah blah blah clearly not the case here, when the order in question has been languishing unshipped for over a week & Walmart still doesn't have the item in stock.
Walmart.com Holds $550 Hostage For PS3 Bundle It Won't Ship - The Consumerist
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Having started out as a piper himself, Jock loves to languish in the tunes of glory, the marches and reels of the standard Scottish songbook.
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In the third quarter of last year, gross value added by Scotland's financial services industry was still languishing below the levels set a year earlier.
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I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.
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There is a paragraph in the appellant's submissions that refers to the unacceptability of simply allowing a person to languish in detention.
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Rather than languishing in rates paying derisory interest, these sums can be made to work hard for the business.
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He has nothing more for you, nor you for him; but he may be rich in juices wherewithal to nourish the heart of another man, and their two lives, set together, may have an endosmose and exosmose whose result shall be richness of soil, grandeur of growth, beauty of foliage, and perfectness of fruit; while you and he would only have languished into aridity and a stunted crab-tree.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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Most analysts of international relations agree that it was a period during which the traditional alliance between Washington and Brussels was languished; mainly due to Bush administration's impuissance to search for broader consensus regarding the Iraq War.
Obama's chance to renew US-Europe relations
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Lawns remained uncut, gardens unweeded and crops languished in the field.
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Our project languished during the holidays.
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Worse, the statue my fellow citizens once erected on Canal Street in my honor now languishes begrimed and deliquesced from the dark floodwater onslaught!
BatesLine: October 2005 Archives
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Have you got one languishing somewhere, unused and unloved?
The Sun
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I should do with this languishing dulcinea, should I deliver her from thraldom?
Camilla
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He had languished in Lewes prison for more than a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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There can be no meaningful dialogue if the doctors are languishing in jail.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Eagles were languishing in 18th place after a bleak winter with zero confidence left in the squad and relegation looked inevitable.
The Sun
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Bradford has for too long languished at the end of two dead-end railway lines and one dead-end motorway.
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According to a parliamentary clerk, there are over a thousand bills languishing before the National Assembly.
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I have seen children all over the world languishing for love, and care, and giving.
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faineant kings under whose rule the country languished
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Their old homes on Bunker Hill began to languish in their fading glory, often well-hidden behind maturing landscaping now left to grow without being clipped.
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Conversely plants that languish in the too hot summer can survive happily in a shadier place with more humidity and slightly damper soil.
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Animals caught in inhumane traps will languish not for hours, but for days.
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In an industry built on kitsch and cliché, acting ability often seems to languish in a distant fourth place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pollard continues to languish in prison.
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I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.
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They were eager to unearth every scrap of information, many having high hopes that they were related to someone rich and famous with an unclaimed fortune languishing in a long-forgotten bank account just begging to be collected.
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Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many from a state of languishment and despair to life.
Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
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His power over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses, she loses her eminence, languishes, and finally dies herself.
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Once again - many of those plants may simply languish in your garden's growing conditions.
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When the mirth of carnal worldlings ceases the joy of the saints is as lively as ever; when the merry-hearted do sigh because the vine languishes the upright-hearted do sing because the covenant of grace, the fountain of their comforts and the foundation of their hopes, never fails.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
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West Ham United are currently languishing at the bottom of the league.
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If it holds, the staycation bandwagon will be a powerful boost to domestic tourism operators languishing in the economic downturn.
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Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Raslavich has complained the company has "languished" in bankruptcy for more than 18 months.
93-Year-Old Ray Perelman Mounts Solo Bid For Philly Newspapers
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She raised her face veil139 and, showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing, she accosted the Porter and said in the suavest tones and choicest language, “Take up thy crate and follow me.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This last pursuit had him touring America in a state of health that would have most troupers languishing in bed with a port and lemon and it was effectively the death of him.
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His name languished in the Senate, and he was finally turned down.19 Most nominations, however, went through Congress unopposed or with little opposition.
A History of American Law
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Astrid was clearly making an effort to look cheerful, but I could tell she was distraught, and even I felt a little guilty at the thought of poor Łukasz, who had been nice to me, languishing in some Communist jail cell while we feasted on langouste and oysters.
Dreaming in French
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Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy.
Finnegans Wake
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The body politic languished in a discomposed mood, scrutinizing her every fidget to see if she would continue her quest for glory or tack back to safe harbor.
Brad Parker: Captain Hillary Sails 'Round Good Hope At Last
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The mistletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense be said to struggle with these trees, for if too many of these parasites grow on the same tree, it will languish and die.
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Tens of thousands of other works languish in anonymity or auctorial obscurity.
Shakespeare Controversies
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They have been harping on about being " a big club’ for 20 odd years, whilst languishing in the lower divisions.
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Shaw languished in jail for fifteen years.
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Patients are languishing on trolleys in record numbers as ministers disagree with doctors about whether people have any alternative to attending overcrowded A&E units.
Times, Sunday Times
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I expect Peters' vote to languish below the 5% mark as a result of this.
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Sligo has been languishing near the bottom from the start.
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Supporters of democracy must firmly challenge that dangerous illusion and remind the world of the dissidents languishing in Cuban jails, many of whom have become seriously ill after being confined for long periods in dank cells.
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They should loan much more to the regions, and more regularly display objects that too often languish in the vaults.
Times, Sunday Times
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I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.
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There can be no meaningful dialogue if the doctors are languishing in jail.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mobilization call finds Leonidas and Patra languishing in their villa beside the sea.
COUP D'ETAT
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So that when youth failes in us, we feele, nay we perceive no shaking or transchange at all in our selves: which in essence and veritie is a harder death, than that of a languishing and irkesome life, or that of age.
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die.
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Owners whose homes have languished unsold for months will fare no better as landlords unless they are prepared to bring their property up to scratch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Importers ranging from clothiers and toymakers to auto factories could find themselves empty-handed as goods from overseas languish at 29 West Coast ports.
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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 Anchor.
Barnaby Rudge
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She had a face that put to shame the shining sun and eyes Babylonian422 and brows like bows bended and cheeks rose-painted and teeth pearly-hued and lips sugared and glances languishing and breast ivory white and body slender and slight, full of folds and with dimples dight and hips like pillows stuffed and thighs like columns of Syrian stone, and between them what was something like a sachet of spices in wrapper swathed.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The UK is languishing in 37th place in the world when it comes to the proportion of the population who are computer engineers.
The Sun
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Shaw languished in jail for fifteen years.
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Moreover, most of them languish in mental asylums and hospitals without being visited or taken care of by their relatives.
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Tens of thousands of other works languish in anonymity or auctorial obscurity.
Shakespeare Controversies
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It has languished long enough in the shadow of unemployment and empty promises.
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He stuck their faces on giant billboard ads across the country, only to suffer the ignominy of their returns languishing at the bottom of the performance tables.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. King stood one side and watched the endless procession up and down, up and down, the strollers, the mincers, the languid, the nervous steppers; noted the eye-shots, the flashing or the languishing look that kills, and never can be called to account for the mischief it does; but not a sound did he hear of the repartee and the laughter.
Their Pilgrimage
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The Eagles were languishing in 18th place after a bleak winter with zero confidence left in the squad and relegation looked inevitable.
The Sun
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If your pet dog would truly languish in the wild, as a stray, you might be able to meet the comparable-life condition without meeting, say, his needs for adequate stimulation, exercise, and contact with other dogs.
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Her remorseful attacker languishes in a UK prison.
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If it has languished in your wardrobe since last winter's sales, chances are it will still be there unworn in January 2005.
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I might, I comforted my languishing hart, vnmeasurably tormented, in putting of it in minde, of solacious and amorous hope: and with that, there was neuer a coale so neere put out, but it was presently renued and set on fire, with the company of the next.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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Languishing in the corner of the lorry, the emaciated carthorse was ‘a very, very sorry sight’ said Tove.
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Reeves stayed in his empty house, with the boat rotting at the dock and rosebushes languishing in the wine barrels.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The party, languishing in the polls, is increasingly fractious and rebellious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The baby and juvenile specimens were exhumed from the museum's collection, where they had languished -- unrecognized and misnamed -- since the 1960s.
Tracking T. Rex's Growth
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I had no illusions about winning a cash prize, but having played prop forward for an RAF rugby team in Holland during my salad days, and being aware that the Wasps were languishing near the bottom of their league, I agreed.
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According to official figures, around 250,000 old appliances will be languishing in storage by the end of the year because of an EU directive demanding the safe disposal of the harmful chemicals they contain.
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A number of other high-profile members of the former regime are already languishing in the prison on similar corruption charges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The retail plant industry is too large and lucrative to allow us plantspeople to languish in a miasma of monochrome, although of course it is perfectly possible to have a simply wonderful garden just by using all-green plants.
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Which means I basically spend my free time in Basra languishing in the hotel, smoking narghiles and ordering yet another delicious meal of lamb kabobs.
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Tran spend five long years languishing in refugee camps.
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People who are currently languishing in prison are potential assets to society.
Times, Sunday Times
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She languished to throw herself into the arms of her father, to unbosom to him all her errors and distresses, and owe their extrication to his wisdom and kindness.
Camilla
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She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
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She probably is more enthusiastic and committed than you, and will rapidly climb the management ladder while you languish on the lower rungs.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the back however - even against an impoverished Hearts' display - there was no shortage of evidence as to why Killie are languishing near the bottom of the table.
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He has nothing more for you, nor you for him; but he may be rich in juices wherewithal to nourish the heart of another man, and their two lives, set together, may have an endosmose and exosmose whose result shall be richness of soil, grandeur of growth, beauty of foliage, and perfectness of fruit, while you and he would only have languished into aridity and a stunted crab-tree.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)
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He stuck their faces on giant billboard ads across the country, only to suffer the ignominy of their returns languishing at the bottom of the performance tables.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because field crops, like potted plants, languish when they're over-watered, proper drainage is an important aspect of successful farming.
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As the nation observed the fifth anniversary of the victory in Kargil, a mother made a fervent appeal to the President for expediting the process of bringing back her son languishing in a Pakistani jail as a prisoner of war.
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It should always be remembered that anyone languishing in prison for a crime he did not commit is most certainly a victim.
Times, Sunday Times
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For 74 years, these true American heroines have languished there ignominiously.
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Their passions, tumultuous and merciless as the Tyrrhene Sea, raged indeed with the danger, but also with the uses, of naturally appointed storm; while ours, pacific in corruption, languish in vague maremma of misguided pools; and are pestilential most surely as they retire.
Val d'Arno
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What achievements can not be said, what of it languish, the daily live without substantial simple.
