How To Use Listless In A Sentence

I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy.
Some days she was listless, propped up facing the window, watching sunlight clock across the valleyed bedclothes. Spin
Jim listlessly streeked his limbs after wake - up.
Lena found her there a minute later, slumped down in the piles of paper, listlessly pawing through them, disconnected and withdrawn, a mental patient in a dayroom. NEVER WAVE GOODBYE
I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.

The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
She could do nothing for herself, she could only obey Joan's dictates, and this she did in listless misery. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
Does your voice sound nervous, monotone, listless or bored? The Sun
At these times I would feel bored and listless, trapped inside the walls of my house. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
This is not a good show for a listless Sunday afternoon.
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Nineteen Eighty-four
I was listless, too sick and weak to say much of anything to defend myself.
He seemed listless and uninterested at times last year - and ineffective at others.
If our sense of future is weak, we live listlessly.
For a while, she didn't know what to do; she passed through the days listlessly, her mind not dwelling on any one subject for too long.
he was listless and bored
Here again the listless rhythms gather images and ideas into poems of real power.
The most listless performances came further up the pitch, though. Times, Sunday Times
Charles H. Baker Jr., in his indispensable treatise on dispensables, "The Gentleman's Companion," describes the effects of regular absinthe-bibbing: "It does nibble the keen edge off the brain until a man becomes a sorry sort of thing; aimless, listless, and generally -- shockingly -- lacking. Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms
A day came when she was feeling listless and miserable, and as if in answer to her need, the sight of a gaily coloured open carriage broke her mood like a bubble.
The novel's Italians are listless voluptuaries, its Germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are whores or maniacs and its censors are libidinously thrilled by the material they censor.
Within a few days I felt lousy, weak, listless. I ran a low-grade fever for a few days, and my head hurt.
Clicking his tongue, breathing heavily, standing listlessly and with a dull-witted look on his face at times, he couldn't even keep himself from yawning.
When the sun fell in through the curtains of his bedroom window the next morning, she smiled listlessly.
The crowd was rather listless. Times, Sunday Times
They were listless and devoid of ideas and invention. The Sun
Goats, oxen and others wandered listlessly amongst the scattered waste and detritus.
reacted to the crisis with listless resignation
Limp and listless, there's no discernable flavour and it seems unretentive, any sauce just sliding off. Times, Sunday Times
In the evening, after our return from the river, the weather clouded, but afterwards cleared up with a change of wind from the South-East, which, from its heat, and from the listless sensations it caused, resembled the hot land-wind of Port Jackson: this seems to afford additional ground for the hypothesis that the interior of this immense island is occupied by vast sandy deserts. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
His daughter's listless behavior since Lan had awakened was something he would have called moping in anyone else. Brightly Burning
But that is still no excuse for the listless effort they are putting in. The Sun
There was another day of brutality during which Ansar vigilantes shaved their beards to “change their look” to better infiltrate the crowds, students later told me.100 That was followed by a large but listless pro-regime counterrally, with the usual offering of “every drop” of blood to the Leader. Let the Swords Encircle Me
Lwi stopped listlessly, and he slid down in desperation and took the reins and began to lead him, insisting he keep moving, up and up the hili. The Goblin Mirror
Usually, you would just sit listlessly, too hot to do anything else.
S'long -- Mr. Barton!" she called listlessly over the other, and started on, stumblingly, clatteringly, up the abruptly steep and precipitous mountain trail -- a little dust-colored gnome on a dust-colored horse, with the dutiful gray pinking cautiously along behind her. Little Eve Edgarton
He was listless and pale and wouldn't eat much.
The children nap and watch television while the parents sit listlessly by the filthy pool and demand more ice for their drinks from harried servants.
They did regather for one last effort but despite an onslaught which produced a yellow card for the listless Boks' captain Joost van der Westhuizen the home defence held out.
Rather than titillate or horrify, MTV's Skins elicits a certain acedia -- a lingering spiritual listlessness or torpor that the ancients counted among the Seven Deadly Sins. Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children
After seemingly endless weeks of constant commotion, they appear listless and lethargic.
The streets are so listless and dull that every time I walk down one I can't help feeling they want me to be sad too.
Answer: Pneumococcus meningitis (meninx or spinal meninge infection) the incipient symptoms have a fever, listless or sleepy, the vomit, as well as the neck strong straight or the thigh is stiff.
I start dialing again as I hover in the bathroom watching unzippered elephants shuffle listlessly into unisex stalls and blasting out minutes later on electrified rails. Mr. Sunrise
She was listless, helpless, but not suicidal, and used cocaine sporadically.
There were no excuses from the Harrison camp but the Scottish fighter looked untypically listless for much of the fight.
However, these symptoms may be absent and children may simply become feverish, drowsy and listless.
After seemingly endless weeks of constant commotion, they appear listless and lethargic.
But can't we have a little listlessness in our lives, some sloth, a dollop or two of drowsiness?
There is a sort of listlessness -- or, perhaps, more properly, reverie -- in which many indulge, which is as sinful as it is unprofitable; and there are modes of thinking and subjects of thought, which are, to say the least, unworthy of a rational, intelligent and immortal spirit. The Young Woman's Guide
From the time they had quitted the burning room to that moment, Waters had passed into his listless, abstracted condition, so helpless and feeble that he retained the grasp of M'liss's hand more through some instinctive prompting rather than the dictates of reason. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
She gave way to listless languor. North and South
He talked on, trying hard not to let her listless air of incredulity freeze the marrow of his bones and the blood in his veins, or cut him so deeply as to destroy his enrooted hope in their splendid future. The Way of the Wind
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
`Yesterday, I thought you helped me... "He stopped in mid-sentence, shrugged, began to walk away listlessly. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and apathetic.
For example, schizophrenia often is characterized by a deficit syndrome that includes anhedonia, listlessness, and general impoverishment of thought, speech, and affect.
After dealing with frizz and the issues faced by blondes, he turned his attention to brunettes, whose main complaint was dull, listless hair.
Why has our politics become so listless, compared to three decades ago? Times, Sunday Times
After dealing with frizz and the issues faced by blondes, he turned his attention to brunettes, whose main complaint was dull, listless hair.
Both my grandmothers wore shapeless, listless, grandmotherly dresses with baggy bosoms and they donned sturdy black oxford-type shoes.
Cally had stood listening with a kind of numbed listlessness, ready to go at the first opportunity, now that the real purpose of the interview was discharged. V. V.'s Eyes
They meandered listlessly though the crowd and Spade accidentally bumped into someone.
Instead, the children sit listlessly in the shade of the only tree in the yard, shuffling their feet, drawing lines in the sand, and dozing.
But watching this torpid, listless movie is like Scuba-diving in treacle.
She would drift listlessly about the rooms, her dreams extinguished.
The movie is bookended by two hard-working but listless sea battles.
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
You may feel tired and listless physically and need to balance your diet, manage stress and take care of health problems.
Only grand events of martyrhood, bloody deaths, crusades, sea partings, and other jejune items could evoke faith, could tease belief from the listless and fickle populace.
Increasingly, however, he was becoming listless and withdrawn, refusing invitations to play and grooming himself disconsolately.
The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
And Billy dances off again in newer glee, while the inspired musician is plunking a banjo imitation on his enchanted instrument, which is unceremoniously drowned out by a circus-tune from Doc that is absolutely inspiring to every one but the barefooted brother, who drops back listlessly to his old position on the floor and sullenly renews operations on his "chigger" claims. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
On Sunday, they were listless throughout and the two goal winning margin is a flattering one from their perspective.
The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and apathetic.
The youths hanging round the fountain, or drifting listlessly from chip shop to pub to street corner, have no sense of ownership of the history that made their town.
Despite a mystifying listlessness of manner, so strange in a girl of fifteen, she charmed him.
The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
The most listless performances came further up the pitch, though. Times, Sunday Times
After having recovered somewhat under the influence of the drug strophanthus, he now became depressed, listless, easily fatigued. The Combined Maze
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
At first, as he says his anti-war position ‘arises from a vision that views the world holistically,’ the audience listens listlessly as the heat bakes the yard.
I could smell the electricity hanging in the listless air.
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
Doctors do not know how many relapsed into mental listlessness or took the extreme step.
Later in the week, in the bleak offices of IKI, Freidman and Linkin and Sasha Lipatov, the leader of the Instrument Development Team, will spend a long, listless day having intermittent conversations and receiving occasional updates from other project participants. Across the Universe
After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, Chapter 18
The campaign in support of the proposition has blanketed the state with advertisements against "puppy mills," the label critics prefer, featuring grainy video images of law enforcement raids on breeding facilities where frail and listless dogs live cramped in wire cages piled with excrement. NYT > Home Page
He cites the example of one client, who came to him aged 34, listless and directionless, seemingly stuck in an almost teenage identity.
You'd never guess such a thing from this 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor.
Pride, as they say, is all that is left to play for, but even that appears in short supply in two listless, morale-free, rugby nations.
Even the goldfish in the pond and the birds in the hedge seem listless and disinterested.
At these times I would feel bored and listless, trapped inside the walls of my house. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
Usually, you would just sit listlessly, too hot to do anything else.
Design, were pretty lethargic, a word that means "listless" - and also a word Wiggins might not know how to spell. The Gazette-Enterprise: News
The tempo never varies from a listless crawl; the vocals, rhythms and arrangements all struggle to stay in the background.
It was upon a beautiful autumn evening, at that glad period of the season when the harvest yields its abundance, that two figures were seen sauntering along the banks of the winding river, which I described as bounding the farm occupied by Heathcote; they had been, as the rods and landing-nets which they listlessly carried went to show, plying the gentle, but in this case not altogether solitary craft of the fisherman. The Purcell Papers
Weary unto death, listless and depressed, Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan.
I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.
Lucy picked up the book and glanced at the title listlessly, Under a A Room with a View
He was listless and pale and wouldn't eat much.
I held the phone listlessly to my ear until I registered a dial tone.
You will soon become listless and bored. Times, Sunday Times
A shadow was on the threshold, and before I had recalled my listless fancy, in tripped Frances Sutherland, herself, feigning not to see me. Lords of the North
This image, in turn, stood in stark opposition to that of the deformed, graceless, debilitated scoliotic girl and to that of the languid, listless, and useless conspicuous consumptive.
The children are never free from illnesses and disease, always hungry, always listless.
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
When she saw that the stranger bent his eyes a great portion of the time on herself, and that their expression denoted the same sentiment in him as filled her own bosom, she turned her face away to fix them in listless gaze upon a distant object. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Now she sits listlessly all day long, keeping to herself.
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
He brought an extra life to the character who stands listless before a deluge of tragedies as his children die in succession.
For listlessness and boredness and nothing-to-do-ness are the best of soils for the breeding of the worms that never stop gnawing. Mary Marston
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
A full stomach draws blood to the belly and away from the brain, leaving you listless and dull.
It was strange to see how listless they were about the meal, even though Providence itself put it into their hands; to note how the yellow-girted slaves scudded amongst them, serving out the loaves, themselves had grown, harvested, and baked; slipping from group to group, rousing, exhorting, administering to a helpless throng that took their efforts without thought or thanks. Gulliver of Mars
It was ritualised, listless clapping, not genuine congratulation at fine play.
He is shirtless, in shorts with suspenders, gartered black socks and is drooped over his porch railing, listlessly watering his wilted blue hydrangeas. Kate Clinton: Dahlin'
You will soon become listless and bored. Times, Sunday Times
They may become listless and not so playful and might stop wanting to go for a walk or interact with you, or other dogs. The Sun
A half-hearted fire burned on the hearth, and watching it listlessly from the cot lay a boy about twice his age, David thought. This Way to Christmas
Bena is convinced that there's something seriously wrong with their doughy, listless baby, but Ted tells her she's crazy and to shut up about it. As The Pages Turn
Since I arrived not a leaf has stirred, not a bird has sung, the tides ebb and flow in listless and soundless ripples. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
They may become listless and not so playful and might stop wanting to go for a walk or interact with you, or other dogs. The Sun
The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly.
Some of the prose seems, dare I say it, listless, almost bored.
The crowd was rather listless. Times, Sunday Times
At no point was he drunk or listless, bored or boring. Times, Sunday Times
When we lose touch with our authentic desire, we become listless and apathetic.
I said to myself as Woods's lukewarm floss flopped listlessly earthwards. Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations | Harry Pearson
Common population, especially for those with symptoms of bad appetite, pale face , listlessness and excretory difficulty.
He had been listless, short of stamina and unable to make his mark on the match, all of which is more troubling than his miss in the penalty shoot-out.
This is a being that would be hugely different behaviorally from a normal human being, an unmotivated, listless vegetable, while a philosopher's zombie, by definition, is as lively and (apparently) motivated as anybody could be.
Don's picture captures the listless, boarded-up feel of the place better than mine does, but I fell too much in love with the lifts and wanted to make them look beautiful.
But her deflated bearing and tone is also a touch obvious - labored, you might say, in its listlessness.
7 For in his lustless limbs, through evil guise, lustless > {Listless; joyless, lacking pleasure or delight} guise > mode of life The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
Possible reactions to immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus and pertussis include fever, vomiting, and listlessness.
She sat in her room, one hot afternoon, in her peignoir, listlessly drawing through her fingers the strands of her long, silky brown hair that hung about her shoulders.
Duties stand for little! all most slumberingly performed! in a slight, listless, heartless manner; as we do every thing, when we are between sleeping and waking. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
they shook hands rather listlessly
But that is still no excuse for the listless effort they are putting in. The Sun
To be sure, the victory parade was impressive, but for nearly an hour the would-be victors had wandered listlessly around the back streets before finding a short cut to glory.
The illness left her feeling listless and depressed.
Does your voice sound nervous, monotone, listless or bored? The Sun
Pneumococcus meningitis (meninx or spinal cord infection) symptom: Has a fever, listless or sleepy, the vomit, as well as the neck strong straight or the thigh is stiff.
The dogs then become listless, go off their food and vomit. The Sun
“An ambulance over here,” a kid with spikes in his hair calls listlessly to a uniformed monitor nearby. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
On the way back to the gatehouse I birded the birders at Stage Island Pool but since none of them were looking through their scopes and some were sitting listlessly on rocks, I intuited that the gull-billed tern was not present. Seagoing sparrow, talkative visitor, new lock, nice weather, oh my
They were listless in the second half, struggling to make an impact against hopelessly inferior opposition. The Sun
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
He said, \ldblquote Hi, \rdblquote kind of listlessly, took off his hat and suit coat and unbuttoned his vest. Red Dog
He's been listless and a bit depressed ever since he got his exam results.
I wandered around disconsolate, listless, and squinting. Is Justin Bieber the new Beatles? Never say never!
Hence, in this anarchic foam of tastes and distastes, a kind of listless blur, gradually appears the figure of a bodily enigma, requiring complicity or irritation. J’aime/Je n’aime pas : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
And their gutter-laden, trashy sound is fresh and invigorating when every other punk band today overproduces their album into listless cookie-cutter status.
Possible reactions to immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus and pertussis include fever, vomiting, and listlessness.
Here in lower/upper/falling listlessly towards the bottom of the barrel middle-income America. Christopher Caen: Occupy What?
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
He had been listless, short of stamina and unable to make his mark on the match, all of which is more troubling than his miss in the penalty shoot-out.
Her friend seemed so apathetic and listless she wanted to shake her.
Her friend seemed so apathetic and listless she wanted to shake her.
Following the steps of the young wide-awake, Miselle saw him deliver the pontil, with the lantern still attached, to a listless individual seated upon a bench whose long iron arms projected far in front of him, while an idle pontil lay across them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
The change was dramatic: he became listless and unresponsive.
However, these symptoms may be absent and children may simply become feverish, drowsy and listless.
`No," Michelle finally answered, listlessly letting the wind buffet her hair as we lammed off north-west. THE TARTAN RINGERS
He had meant to be a little facetious about the Greek words; but it was the slowly prepared and rather exasperating facetiousness of an ageing man, and he had dropped it listlessly, as though he himself had perceived this. Clayhanger
Will you understand, I wonder, the excitement that possessed me when, plunged deep in the listlessness of despair, I opened my writing-table drawer, and found a fair and splendid ten-franc piece that shone like a rising star, new and sparkling, and slily hiding in a cranny between two boards? The Magic Skin
But he grew up, I think, with -- I don't want to use the word listless; I'm very careful -- with a sense of following in the family footsteps to some extent, but not in the political vein. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Peter Jennings Discusses 'Family Business' - September 14, 2000
My suspicions were confirmed on tasting the dish - the sauce turned out to be a drab and listless affair, making the chewy meat even more of a misery to eat.
Daphne White listlessly pushes her tater tots around her plate.
He was listless and pale and wouldn't eat much.
Now, with the Big 12 conference finale within touching distance and one last shot at a national title beckoning, she has been asked to lead the Longhorns 'attack in one last attempt to kick start a listless offense. The Daily Texan RSS
Prior to this we'd had limited access to the French word "ennui" - a more grandiose, long-term boredom - but once we had our own word for listless dissatisfaction, we embraced it. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
At no point was he drunk or listless, bored or boring. Times, Sunday Times
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
Re-write men "helloed" indignantly into telephones, repeating with sudden listlessness the pregnant details of the news pouring in; and scribbling it down on sheets of paper ... "dead Grant park bullet unknown 26 yrs silk stockings refinement mystery. Erik Dorn
The listless llamas, who live with a five-year-old male llama, Murphy, and some sheep, have not left their Helmsley field for 12 months.
There was no looking at watches, no stifled yawning, no uneasy change of position, no watching the clock; strangers visiting the chapel listened, at first, from real interest, with a feeling that by-and-by they would relapse into their usual listlessness, but before they had time to _relapse_, behold the sermon was done. The Old Stone House
So far Rooney's unworldly football powers have seen him break a foot at Euro 2004, break a foot before the Germany World Cup and recover in time to get sent off in the quarter-final, failing to qualify for the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland and harrumphing listlessly around in South Africa last year complaining of boredom and apparently distracted by "events off the field". Wayne Rooney can be England's top player – as long as he isn't picked | Harry Pearson
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
Equally effective is Brigge's anxious scrutiny of newborn Samuel, who flutters between listless near-death and bubble-blowing bonniness.
Hong Kong's listless Government Records Service already has a purpose-built facility, a budget and staff. Hong Kong's Blind Spot
Katherine forced herself to move and continue on her rounds, encouraging tired and listless men.
They were listless in the second half, struggling to make an impact against hopelessly inferior opposition. The Sun
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
Why has our politics become so listless, compared to three decades ago? Times, Sunday Times
She herself, nevertheless, felt too listless to join the banquet, so simply reclining on a sofa of the inner room, she looked at the plays in company with Mrs. Hsüeh; and choosing several kinds of such eatables as were to her taste, she placed them on a small teapoy, and now helped herself to some, and now talked, as the fancy took her. Hung Lou Meng
At one side wedged between two encina trees lay the roof of a house, on the edge of which a little child was sitting beside the body of a man, who lying with one arm hung listlessly over the side seemed asleep or dead. A Napa Christchild; and Benicia's Letters
It’s a testament to Day-Lewis’ ability that he’s able to remain captivating while playing such a listless and static character. NINE Review – Collider.com
At dawn we convene, an adiaphorous wind caresses us with listless fingers, vainglorious and animal. THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems
The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and apathetic.

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