Sample sentences for LETHARGIC

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Definition

lacking energy

More rarely, lethargy can refer to inactivity or even a state of unconsciousness.

lethargic = lacking energy

lethargic = sluggish (not moving much due to a lack of energy)

lethargic = sluggish (lacking energy)

the lethargy of siesta time
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

lethargy = lack of energy

It was not a very easy matter to rouse him: so lethargic and heavy were his slumbers.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

lethargic = lacking energy

There's an air of expectation in the psychology lecture hall as two hundred or so kids trod in, feeling none of their traditional lethargy.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

lethargy = lack of energy

I would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

lethargy = a state with a lack of energy

lethargy = lack of energy

Warming himself ever so briefly had shaken away the lethargy and resignation and restored his will to survive.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

lethargy = lack of energy

Problems this year were first noticed when the boy developed motor coordination problems and mental lethargy which increased until he fell into a coma.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

lethargy = a state with a lack of energy

Arising lethargic and groggy after my sleepless night at Camp Three, I was slow to dress, melt water, and get out of the tent on Thursday morning, May 9.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

lethargic = without energy

The sea moved in a lethargic way, as if already exhausted by the oncoming heat.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

lethargic = sluggish (without energy)

A lethargy had settled on him, and a little gray hopelessness.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

lethargy = lack of energy

He helped her up from the bed, ignoring the lethargy of her movements, and put his arms around her.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

lethargy = lack of energy

In fact, I'm a model patient, my lethargy taken for restraint, obedience to the doctors' orders.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

lethargy = lack of energy

Long after he had finished eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister...
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

lethargic = without energy

The heat swooped low over the land clinging like an invisible shroud, and through it people moved slowly, lethargically, as if under water.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

lethargically = slowly (without energy)

Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

lethargy = inactivity (lack of energy)

The Fugees gathered their gear lethargically.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

lethargically = without energy

...were playing a lethargic game of Ping-Pong.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

lethargic = lacking energy

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