languor

Example Sentences

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For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

But despite reminding those who mention the Jedi and its protocols that the Order no longer exists, this Ahsoka certainly behaves like one to the point of almost verging into languor.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2023

Not coincidentally pro football only took off as a national sport during the late ’50s and ’60s when it embraced television, which marketed football’s brutality as a counterweight to baseball’s languor.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

The only thing vaguely French about it was the languor; never in my life have I spent so many consecutive hours lying down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Not for me the languor and the subtlety I had read about in books.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier