How To Use Listlessly In A Sentence
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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.
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I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.
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Lucy picked up the book and glanced at the title listlessly, Under a
A Room with a View
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I held the phone listlessly to my ear until I registered a dial tone.
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Now she sits listlessly all day long, keeping to herself.
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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'
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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
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The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly.
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I said to myself as Woods's lukewarm floss flopped listlessly earthwards.
Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations | Harry Pearson
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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.
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they shook hands rather listlessly
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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
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“An ambulance over here,” a kid with spikes in his hair calls listlessly to a uniformed monitor nearby.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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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
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He said, \ldblquote Hi, \rdblquote kind of listlessly, took off his hat and suit coat and unbuttoned his vest.
Red Dog
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Here in lower/upper/falling listlessly towards the bottom of the barrel middle-income America.
Christopher Caen: Occupy What?
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`No," Michelle finally answered, listlessly letting the wind buffet her hair as we lammed off north-west.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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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
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Daphne White listlessly pushes her tater tots around her plate.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.
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If our sense of future is weak, we live listlessly.
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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.
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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.
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When the sun fell in through the curtains of his bedroom window the next morning, she smiled listlessly.
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Goats, oxen and others wandered listlessly amongst the scattered waste and detritus.
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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
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Usually, you would just sit listlessly, too hot to do anything else.
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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
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Jim listlessly streeked his limbs after wake - up.
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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
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`Yesterday, I thought you helped me... "He stopped in mid-sentence, shrugged, began to walk away listlessly.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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They meandered listlessly though the crowd and Spade accidentally bumped into someone.
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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.
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She would drift listlessly about the rooms, her dreams extinguished.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Usually, you would just sit listlessly, too hot to do anything else.
