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Example sentences for "languid"

Lexicographically close words:
language; languaged; languages; langue; langues; languidly; languish; languished; languishes; languishing
  1. Putting out a languid hand, she pulled herself up, with the help of the table, on to her feet.

  2. When Bunting began to ask Joe Chandler about the last of those awful Avenger murders, she even listened with a certain languid interest to all he had to say.

  3. And again she got up and meekly obeyed him, walking across the room with languid steps.

  4. She felt languid and dull, as one is apt to feel after a broken night, and it was a comfort to her to know that Mr. Sleuth was not likely to ring before twelve.

  5. I could hear the tones of her languid voice, and see the light lingering to the last in her dim eyes, whenever they met mine.

  6. He shed a few tears at the sight of us, in a maudlin manner; and he continued languid and sluggish all through the interview.

  7. The hours hung heavily upon me; and the close, sultry air of London, so different from the fresh sea-breezes of my native place, made me feel languid and irritable.

  8. She ran to a brook that was flowing by, She made of her two hands a nice round cup, And washed the roots of the rose-tree high, Till it lifted its languid blossoms up.

  9. In that languid air you would doze deliciously!

  10. No smooth array of phrase, Artfully sought and ordered though it be, Which the cold rhymer lays Upon his page with languid industry, Can wake the listless pulse to livelier speed, Or fill with sudden tears the eyes that read.

  11. Refresh the languid student pausing o'er The learned page apart, And he shall turn to con his task once more With an encouraged heart.

  12. It came step by languid step; he knew no power to hurry it.

  13. Fifty paces below, a column of opal smoke had begun to wreathe and stretch a languid flag.

  14. His feelings, languid and unsteady as they always were, drew him to the Girondists; but he was awed by the vigor and determination of the Mountain.

  15. Busy, I see," yawned Poinsett, with languid politeness.

  16. Failing to make his companion respond to his repeated elbowings, he leaned over the table toward the languid stranger.

  17. She sank back on the sofa, half veiled her face with her fan, and dropped the long fringes of her eyes with a deprecating and half languid movement.

  18. Involuntarily his languid eyes closed, and still through his eyelashes a well-known form seemed to move amid the obscurity with which he thought himself enveloped.

  19. In young men, just past puberty, and in aged men, they are often scarce and languid in motion.

  20. Too languid to look for another," said Dorothy, her eyes aglow with indignation.

  21. She listened to the quick, nervous steps of Miss Mingle as she hurried about the kitchen, preparing nourishment for her languid sister.

  22. She raised her languid eyes to her child, but her palsied tongue could speak no word of tenderness.

  23. The votaries of fashion and gayety are they to whom existence grows languid and life a burden.

  24. Almost all larvae, at their birth, are for a time in a very feeble and languid state, the duration of which differs in different species.

  25. When a few meals have invigorated its languid powers, the renovated animal makes up for its long abstinence by eating with double voracity.

  26. On the left bank a porphyritic block, up whose side a mule can be ridden, is disposed in a slope of the palest and most languid of greens, broken by piles of black rock so regular as to appear artificial.

  27. I do not feel the freshness of that breeze that was wont to renovate my languid frame; nor does the odorous scent of flowers wafted from the shores delight my jaded senses.

  28. Then, after a hasty lunch, at which the Squire did not appear, and Mrs. Gaddesden was more than usually languid and selfish, Elizabeth rushed off to the village on her bicycle.

  29. The argent sea surged steep below, Surged languid in a tropic glow; And two great hearts kept surging so!

  30. I felt it all, as people feel things after a sharp fit of indisposition, when the nervous system, languid at once and sensitive, thrills and trembles to every breath of air.

  31. When the intolerable heat of the day has subsided, I sometimes take a languid stroll through the streets of the city, not unamused, not altogether unobserving, though unable to profit much by what I see and hear.

  32. We were too hot and too languid to converse.

  33. After one or two brilliant excursions to the sea, winter, in its dampest, muddiest, most languid form, had fallen upon us and shut us in.

  34. Many others, without going to extremes such as this, feel languid all the time from the same cause.

  35. But there are others who are constantly feeling languid because they have not learned how and when to take suitable rest.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "languid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aloof; ambling; anemic; anesthetized; apathetic; benumbed; blah; blase; bloodless; bored; catatonic; cautious; chicken; circumspect; comatose; cowardly; crawling; creeping; dead; debilitated; deliberate; detached; disinterested; doped; dormant; dreamy; drooping; droopy; drowsy; drugged; dull; easy; effete; enervated; enfeebled; fagged; faint; faltering; fatigued; feeble; flabby; flaccid; flagging; flat; floppy; footsore; foul; frazzled; gentle; gone; gradual; groggy; halting; heartless; heavy; hopeless; idle; imbecile; impotent; inactive; inanimate; indifferent; indolent; inert; jaded; lackadaisical; languid; languorous; latent; lazy; leaden; leisurely; lethargic; lifeless; limber; limp; limping; listless; logy; lumbering; lumpish; moderate; moribund; napping; nerveless; nodding; nonchalant; numb; passive; phlegmatic; poking; poky; pooped; powerless; relaxed; reluctant; resigned; rubbery; sagging; sapless; sated; sedentary; seedy; shuffling; slack; sleeping; sleepy; slothful; slow; sluggish; slumbering; smoldering; soft; somnolent; soporific; spineless; spiritless; staggering; stagnant; standing; static; strengthless; strolling; stupefied; stuporous; supine; suspended; tame; tardy; tentative; tired; toddling; torpid; tottering; trudging; unconcerned; unhurried; uninterested; unnerved; unrefreshed; unstrung; vegetable; wan; wayworn; weak; weakened; weakly; weary; withdrawn; worn; yawning