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• Would he let others toil to support him while he languished all afternoon over his sestinas?2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 11. From the entry sestina
• But languish not to alter, Where to fantasticise would be to falter, To falter weakly, unachieving change.2017, Mark Steven, Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism. From the entry fantasticise
• How long does a trend have to languish before Hollywood seizes it as its own fresh discovery?2001, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 46, number 4, page 24. From the entry business in the front, party in the back
• The educated man of the twentieth century is not anaemic, languishing in a washed-out, wan vitality.(Can we date this quote?), Wake Forest College, Bulletin of Wake Forest College…. From the entry anaemic
• Private Chapman languished there for nearly three years.2018 November 11, Hampton Sides, “Remembering the Forgotten War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry Kanggye
• Under the spell of the cebularze, I let my knish quest languish and spent days at the cafés along Good Street.2014, Laura Silver, Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, Waltham, M.A.: Brandeis University Press, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry cebularz
• "Many of his nominees have languished, but he's only recessed the ones that were critical to keep agencies functioning."2013 January 14, Michael Grunwald, “Cliff Dweller”, in Time, volume 181, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27…. From the entry recess
• But who now languished in a jailcell with a split pate while his foe sped away into the night?2013, Brian Panhuyzen, The Sky Manifest, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry jailcell
• But the penthouses languished on the market, until he began marketing them as combined space for superaffluent buyers.2008 February 24, Josh Barbanel, “Combine and Conquer”, in New York Times. From the entry superaffluent
• He never seemed to mind, and after a while, she no longer felt self-conscious about languishing in the amnion of his office.2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry amnion
• “I think I'd rather languish in the Salt Box at Newgate Prison wearing the Devil's Claws than to be married to that tree,” Kierney said.Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen, in 2017, Dark Screams (volume 6). From the entry saltbox
• But without its own respected brands, its Toyotas and Samsungs, China will always languish at the lower end of the value chain.2013, Richard Rosecrance, The Resurgence of the West, →ISBN. From the entry Samsung
• The most famous exception is Kevin Mitnick, the "dark side" hacker who became a cybermartyr after languishing in jail for four years without trial.1999 June 6, Chris Taylor, “Geeks vs. G-Men”, in Time. From the entry cybermartyr
• Unless this internal shift can be made, then not only the Russians but all of humanity will continue to languish in an internal exile.1995, David Patterson, Exile: The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry internal exile
• Thus the unfortunate languish joblessly or end up accepting temporary employment in which they are less likely to use their formal training or education.1995, Elleni Tedla, Sankofa: African Thought and Education, page 198. From the entry joblessly
• What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl?1993, Nancy Kay Webb, “Community Concert”, in Ridge Review, volume 10, page 42. From the entry drabble-tail
• An area rug can supply the zing of pattern or a swack of color to a room that languishes from blandness .1967, House & Garden - Volume 131, page 150. From the entry swack
• Margo (Elle Fanning), a brilliant student languishing at her hometown California college, falls into an affair with Mark (Michael Angarano), a married professor who leaves her pregnant.2026 April 15, James Poniewozik, “Review: ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Will Make an OnlyFan of You”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Shyanne
• Rather than arch-villain or "shag-bandit" Willoughby (Wills) impregnating then abandoning a teenager, as in the original, he introduces "Little Eliza" to drugs, and she languishes in a crack den.2013 October 27, Paula Byrne, “Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope – review”, in The Guardian. From the entry shag bandit
• For centuries, the Mona Lisa was a relatively obscure painting languishing in the private residences of kings—still a masterpiece, to be sure, but only one among many.2011, Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious, Crown Business, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry Mona Lisa
• To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck's obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow the form to languish forever.2012 May 1, Taylor Clark, “Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb. Can We Stop Apologizing for Them Now?”, in Kotaku, archived from the…. From the entry dreckiness

Meaning of languish

1. verb To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
2. verb To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
3. verb To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.

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How do you use languish in a sentence?

Languish is used as a verb. For example: “He languished without his girlfriend.”

What is a short sentence with languish?

“He languished without his girlfriend.”

What does languish mean?

Languish means to lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.