Examples of 'languished' in a sentence
Meaning of "languished"
Languish is a verb that means to suffer from being forced to remain in a difficult situation or environment
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- simple past tense and past participle of languish
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The world languished in the culture of violence.
Sinclair vomited several times as he languished there.
You languished in the shadow of your father.
The blogosphere has languished without him.
He languished for days and then he died.
The flowers languished and died.
He languished for about four months.
Over a billion people still languished in wrenching poverty.
And languished for four long years.
Most of them have languished in obscurity.
My dad languished on the sidelines because of decisions he regretted.
A depth perception languished in the night.
Paris languished in despair in the dungeon.
But then they languished there.
Mitnick languished four more years in federal prison.
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Welcome beautiful partridge for whom my eyes languished.
And there he languished for six years.
Parliamentary works to define a new federative regime languished.
That has languished for a long time.
Unfortunately his reputation as a composer languished at a low level.
A prisoner languished lonely inside his cell.
Then his grievance based languished for years.
I have languished in kromaškoj cell.
Where a thousand men have languished.
My father has languished in prison for too long.
I was getting frustrated at not being able to do anything if a book languished.
The movie has since languished in development hell.
It languished for a while and now seems to be petering out.
Their spirits languished within them.
It languished for fear of ridicule.
A number of projects have languished for many years.
Now he languished in prison for prophesying the truth.
But those programs have languished year after year.
She languished and died.
Crackdowns and curfews continued and detainees languished in jails.
She would have languished upstairs forever as a shitkicker.
My fraud case has languished.
They have languished in appalling prison conditions for years.
Innocent people languished in jail.
Languished on all sides of him.
Karppinen languished far back.
In the intervening years it languished.
The project languished in development hell for eleven years.
For half a century the debate about citizenship languished.
You have languished here for far too long.
The blog has languished.
Vices languished around equilibrium.
He was taken to the place of his execution where he languished for months.
It has languished since then.
In despair at being unable to seize this alter ego he languished and died.
