languorous

How To Use languorous In A Sentence

• There had been one sound, only one: the slow outrush of air, like a languorous sigh. Dance Of Death
• Indulge your taste buds in an ambrosial meal prepared by a creative Hawaiian chef, then take a long languorous walk, arm in arm, along the beach.
• The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish.
• The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing. DANSVILLE
• All those long, languorous movements, eyes locked, bodies welded at the breast, legs entwining whew!
• A woman, reclining on a green chaise longue, wears a rose peignoir, its ostrich collar languorously open.
• She dances like the moonlight -- light, languorous, aswoon. Perpetual Light : a memorial
• The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
• a hot languorous afternoon
• Only days before he had been duetting fabulously as pianist with Joyce DiDonato at the Gramophone Awards in a languorous version of "Over the Rainbow", on balance a piece that does bear frequent repetition though I can see I may regret that remark. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida