All 5 Uses
languish
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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- She waits like a drop, hands languishing together in front.†
Story 1.16 *languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
- In their retrospect, her body, never turning, seemed to languish upright for a moment, then descend.†
Story 3.29
- When the fire was black, my servants came languishing from the kitchen, and all the way up the ladder to the beds above they had to pull the drowsy-kneed star-gazers, spilling laughter and songs all the way.†
Story 4.37languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
- Even now, the girl probably languished in tears because the little country train she was coming on, from her unknown town, was late.†
Story 4.39languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
- Perhaps, even more foolishly, she had come early, and was languishing just beyond that gate, not knowing if she were allowed inside the wall or not-how would she know?†
Story 4.39languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
Definitions:
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(1)
(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)