Sample Sentences forlanguish (editor-reviewed)
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The prisoner languished in the dungeon for years.languished = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
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If you're worried their conversation will languish, include Kim. She will assure stimulating conversation no matter who is at the table.languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time
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I am sure you don't want to languish in the dungeons of Limerick jail far from friends and family. (source)
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"What does 'languishing' mean?" (source)languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
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Over a century, languishing in chains, Dare I now hope for freedom from my woes? (source)
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So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere. (source)languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
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Caspian was sorry for the others languishing in the hold of Pug's slave-ship, (source)languishing = suffering for a long time
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, (source)languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
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In Russia just now, a young man could get thrown in jail for stealing a loaf of bread or a bottle of vodka and, because the criminal justice system was clogged, languish in a detention center for a year or even four years before his case came to trial. (source)languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time
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Cat languishes in cellar for two days. (source)languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time
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His servants bore him off, and softly laid His languish'd limbs upon his homely bed.† (source)
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As he listened to all this Don Quixote was in a state of breathless amazement, for immediately the countless adventures like this, with windows, gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had read of in his trashy books of chivalry, came to his mind.† (source)
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The lines of her countenance changed from the rigidity of business to the softness of love when she saw Jude, and she bent her eyes languishingly upon him.† (source)
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Now will I speak of woeful Damian, That languisheth for love, as ye shall hear; Therefore I speak to him in this manneare.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She languisheth" in older English, today we say "She languishes."
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Under no circumstances must he lend himself to any additional blandishments or languishments in this field.† (source)
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All these people languishing in filth, praying for the 'Great Prusias' to stop and make their fortune. (source)languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
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