languidly

Example Sentences

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Then again, you could take the time-honored, lazy-summer approach and spoon it up, languidly and meltingly, right from the container and into your mouth.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

When she finally began, her set was a lyrical, high-concept performance that featured ballet dancers and contortionists as Del Rey draped herself languidly across the stage.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2023

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

Michelle Obama’s right hand languidly grazes beneath her chin, dangling blue fingernails that add a distinctive note of contemporary color.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2021

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald