languish
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
Many celebrity homes that languish on the market are caused by overpricing, as in the Baldwins’ case, or over-personalization, as with Jordan’s sports palace.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
Abrupt, unwelcome occurrences scar our autonomy and cripple our illusion of independence; the question of what went wrong falls on our shoulders, another loop to languish inside.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
The case likely would have continued to languish if not for the sergeant’s chance encounter with a professor that fall.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Most academic analyses of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing languish
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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