languishing

Maybe it was languishing at the back of a Silver Lake dad’s closet.

While languishing in League One, Sheeran and many other Ipswich fans must have wondered whether they would ever see their team play in the Premier League again.

When we arrived at the family home, a few days after the deluge, it was languishing in a sea of destruction.

"Culture wars, the war on woke," he said, "isn't the thing that's going to persuade somebody languishing on a hospital waiting list that they'll see public services improve."

Rite Aid’s languishing stock, meanwhile, took a nosedive when the company entered bankruptcy late last year and the New York Stock Exchange moved to delist it.