vegetating

Example Sentences

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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

Far from vegetating, those at the Metropolitan Playhouse pirouette, leap, cartwheel and even do the can-can and the highland fling.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2012

Otherwise you’re nobody, nothing, a potato vegetating in your seven-by-ten limbo.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote