languish

The last thing she expected was for it to languish on the market for four months and counting, specifically because of the data center being built behind it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

The division is under pressure to show quick results, but it has struggled to recruit prosecutors and has been slowed by an internal turf war that has caused some promising investigations to languish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Places like Wigan - in Greater Manchester, Burnham's stronghold - often languish next to the bigger cities in whose shadow they sit.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Nathan Hochman had let the case languish for nearly his entire first year in office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

“That they may not languish in unavailing grief,” he said in a slightly amplified voice, “nor sorrow as those who have no hope, but through their tears look always up to Thee....”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Official readouts and state media reports have not said whether Xi and Kim discussed North Korea's nuclear weapons development, for which Pyongyang languishes under international sanctions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Tortora, meanwhile, languishes in squalid jail cells and a country with only a casual regard for habeas corpus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Jenner is likely taking a significant financial hit on the property as it languishes on the market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Before that there is this week's attempt to make up ground on the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai where the largely US-based Fleetwood languishes in 94th place.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

If these are the sources which nourish literature, we should naturally expect that they must have become scanty or dry when learning languishes or expires.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

SpaceX shares initially jumped in its IPO but have since languished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

He languished with Memphis and Washington after consistently contributing to playoff runs with Boston.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

And yet, oil has languished below $100 a barrel for over three weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

His Palm Beach compound languished for six years and required $22 million in price cuts before it was sold, while his sprawling Oyster Bay compound on Long Island was recently taken off the market.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

Now it languished on a high shelf, under a box full of cash register tapes.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

The club he loves are languishing in the third division of Spanish football - and one thing is on his mind.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Nunes resigned in April after White House advisers told Trump his company was languishing, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Former attorneys in the division worry that other preexisting cases are languishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

After languishing in development hell under Stanley Kubrick for two decades, the notoriously intense auteur deferred the project to Spielberg, believing he would be the right fit to tell such a complex yet tender story.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Reports reached us that these Polish Jews were languishing on the border in a squalid no-man's-land of temporary camps.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson