vegetating
Example Sentences
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"It stops your life progressing. You're just vegetating your life away," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Even in that condition he went to law offices in Atlanta every day he could, chiefly to keep from vegetating.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020
And without work he and his wife began to feel that they were vegetating.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
“You said we don’t want people vegetating in public housing. Those comments were concerning to me,” remarked freshman Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017
Otherwise you’re nobody, nothing, a potato vegetating in your seven-by-ten limbo.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
