languishing in English

verb
1
(of a person or other living thing) lose or lack vitality; grow weak or feeble.
plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant
2
suffer from being forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation.
he has been languishing in jail since 1974
synonyms:waste awayrotbe abandonedbe neglectedbe forgottensufferexperience hardship
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "languishing" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "languishing", or refer to the context using the word "languishing" in the English Dictionary.

1. The ruling party is lAnguishing

2. But by the mid-aughts the commission was languishing.

3. Tran spend five long years languishing in refugee camps.

4. LAnguishing definition, becoming languid, in any way

5. He delivered the Israelites languishing in Egyptian bondage.

6. The shares are languishing at just 46p after yesterday's fall.

7. Our share price is languishing compared to our peers.

8. Two thousand Africans are presently languishing in jail.

9. LAnguishing definition: that languishes Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

10. The poor thing is languishing without a human touch.

11. The patient...is languishing in a semi-conscious state.

12. The soldier is lying on the bed, languishing of wounds.

13. John has been languishing over a promotion for many years.

14. We discovered it languishing in the corridors of the Vatican.

15. He has been lAnguishing in jail for the past 20 years

16. She should be on a stage, not languishing in some asylum.

17. He has been languishing in jail for the past twenty years.

18. And this was even before Ambulances started languishing outside hospitals for hours

19. The ruling party is languishing in third place in the opinion polls.

20. West Ham United are currently languishing at the bottom of the league.

21. Since finishing the latest William Wilson novel two weeks earlier, he had been languishing.

22. After languishing in obscurity for many years, her early novels have recently been rediscovered.

23. + 25 For I will satisfy the weary one* and fill each one* who is languishing.”

24. The bill had been languishing in committee because of opposition from Democrats and Republicans alike.

25. God’s covenant people had been forcibly taken from their homeland and now were languishing in captivity in Babylon.

26. The story was quickly denied, yet the shares were languishing at 255p, down by the close.

27. She deals especially with Robert, a former virtuoso accordion languishing in unemployment, and his five children.

28. Moreover, Morrissey's falsetto wail soars above and beyond the bad music criticism languishing in his lyrics.

29. Craig was able to say his thanks in church while I was languishing in bed with tonsillitis.

30. Our languishing economic ties with Russia means that in the Indian economic growth story Russia is largely absent.

31. This nondescript little gem across from Arizona Stadium has been languishing in relative obscurity for the last two years.

32. Sohu's stock price is languishing below Dollars 2-down from its Nasdaq listing price of Dollars 13 last July.

33. Other contract proposals are languishing in the Senate, and Clinton has either vetoed or threatened to veto the rest.

34. Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions.

35. And this is why our species has prospered around the world while the rest of the animals sit behind bars in zoos, languishing.

36. The danger is that while you put off the legwork, your money might be languishing in a second-rate account.

37. 13 This nondescript little gem across from Arizona Stadium has been languishing in relative obscurity for the last two years.

38. This is a book, after all, in which a friendly centaur can revive a languishing maiden with an 'arc of fire' from its 'enormous' phallus .

39. To exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time: After lAnguishing in obscurity for many years, her early novels have recently been rediscovered

40. A large number of major and medium irrigation projects taken up under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) were languishing mainly due to inadequate provision of funds.

41. 8 There are many WordNet projects languishing with older versions of the data, in many cases because they haven't gotten around to the database format conversion.

42. The article in Bild said the UK's 'successful' vaccine programme had allowed the PM to promise a brighter future while Germany is 'stuck in lockdown' and languishing behind on vaccines.

43. One day at work, one of my coworkers was asking me a plant question (I’m notorious as the go-to guy for plant questions), and when I finished advising him, he proceeded to tell me a story of his mother’s Bromeliad that was languishing.

44. ‘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.’ ‘In her favoured event, the triple jump, another second with a distance of 12

45. NEW YORK – The indifference and apathy that one finds in Washington from both the Congress and President Barack Obama on the Doha Round of world trade talks, and the alarm and concern expressed by statesmen elsewhere over the languishing negotiations, mark the end of the post-1945 era of American leadership on multilateral free trade.