languish for
Example Sentences
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Nathan Hochman had let the case languish for nearly his entire first year in office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The incarcerated population is rapidly aging as individuals convicted in their youth languish for decades under mandatory minimums.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2024
Yet unlike the Ukrainians, these refugees are forced to languish for years in inhumane, slum-like camps, while their children are denied schooling.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022
He and other labour activists allege that in many industrial accidents, cases languish for years while the accused are released on bail.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2022
Many rich mineral lodes yet remain undiscovered, and a vast number of valuable mines languish for lack of capital to develop them.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
