languidly

Example Sentences

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Children sit in the shade and play languidly with rocks.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

The first came in Brazil's opening group game against Czechoslovakia when Pele, from several yards inside the centre circle in his own half, received the ball languidly then spotted keeper Ivo Viktor off his line.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022

And yet for me the show's beating heart is something that goes unnamed — and for artistic reasons that's for the better – across all six languidly beautiful and methodically brutal episodes.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022

Koppe, on the floor, poses languidly, arching off the ground in suggestions of levitation, tilting her head way back.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022

The lazy motion with which the lance goes up, turning over silently and languidly as it goes, contrasts with this.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White