How to Use languish in a Sentence

languish

verb
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  • This is a chamber where bills go to languish and die a slow death.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The trick is to give them something to climb, or else their vines will languish in a mildewy mess on the ground.
    — Alex Testere, Saveur, 24 July 2024
  • Indeed, agents should languish in the 1950s at their own risk.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Statham fell off and in 2019 Bautista first came aboard before the project once again languished.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
  • Add a shower of bright herbs to liven up beans that have languished in a can in the back of your pantry.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 6 Apr. 2020
  • But by the 1980s French Fumé began to languish as Sancerre started to soar.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 29 July 2021
  • The vote marked a pivotal moment for the bill, which has languished for over a decade in Congress.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 27 June 2024
  • Watch her return to her small-town Rust Belt home and languish in the big vibes and wistful mood.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Today millions of refugees languish in refugee camps around the world.
    — Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Householder let the bill languish for more than a year.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
  • At the time, the old mule barns had languished in disrepair for decades, and the empty street was used for parking.
    — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2024
  • And at the same time, compassion isn't just letting (the homeless) stay there and languish.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2021
  • So instead of guessing how long your catch has been languishing on a bed of ice, look to the freezer case.
    — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The company’s stock has languished mostly under $10 a share for the past two years.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • That may be the most common put-down of the White House dreamers who are languishing in the pre-primary polls.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The sprawling nine-bedroom estate at the heart of the real estate war has languished empty for the last two years.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Without the votes to move forward, Greene’s attempt to oust Johnson may languish in the halls of Congress.
    — Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Busch needs to play every day and languishing on the bench in the majors does his career no favors.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • The Lions then hired Wood as team president, but have languished in a state of mediocrity for years.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • But there was no new trial, and Edwards would languish in prison for nearly two decades.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • After Shane Porter’s death, his family let the Jeepster languish in the garage.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the others land in jail cells or squalid street encampments, or languish in back bedrooms.
    — Sally Satel, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The industry has languished in a weird no-man’s-land on social media for years.
    — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • So, for now, old CDs languish in basement or attics, or just end up with other plastics — in the trash.
    — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The mill opened in 2010 only to languish amid a global economic slump.
    — al, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Argan shares languish at less than five times free cash flow.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • At the same time, the investigation into the killing languished.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The club enters this weekend languishing in fifth place in the Bundesliga, its form patchy, its progress stalled.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • Meanwhile the naira currency languishes at record lows against the dollar.
    — Chinedu Asadu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • For years, the filmography of Meyer has languished in a liminal space between lost and found — Gregory described it as being out of circulation.
    — Rich Juzwiak, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024

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