How to Use languid in a Sentence

languid

adjective

• It was a hot, languid summer day.
• They proceeded at a languid pace.
• The whole process set a languid pace for life there, and a lot of people liked it that way.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
• This languid bop will get you through the rocky waves of life, but don't let the smooth groove the song is built on fool you.
  — Courtney E. Smith, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• In-stead the focus is on the beach and the languid turquoise waters beyond.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• The colors are liquid and languid, but there is a tension to the work.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• And ere the languid summer died, / Sweet Maud became the Judge’s bride.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• There’s a lot of time in between songs, meaning the 70-minute clip has a languid pace.
  — al, 22 Mar. 2020
• It’s the languid circulation of this hot air that cooks the food.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 3 Mar. 2022
• Options run the gamut from versions with sleeves to languid gowns.
  — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2022
• This trip, on a cold and wet winter day, will not allow for a languid boat ride.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Growth has slowed slightly since 2017, but still seems to be beating the languid pace set in the five years before that.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Much time is spent crafting the world the story is built on with the premise moving forward at a languid pace.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• From languid and dreamy to bright and bubbly, here are our favorite Troye Sivan remixes to date.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 4 June 2018
• The trail hugs the lower slope of the mountain in a languid circle past rough boulders and a forest of cactus.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
• Baseball has hit the fast-forward button on the languid pace of its season.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2020
• Kemper tells Ford, with all the languid frustration of Kermit the Frog).
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• The Lyriq feels at its best in Touring Mode with everything set to its most relaxed and languid.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 28 June 2022
• The battery of barracuda (yes, en masse they are called that) soon shifted course, and we were left to our languid strokes.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019
• As love blooms, so do their souls, in the patient, languid manner of tea leaves steeping in water.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• But each, in its own way, was an intervention, a break from long, languid days.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
• The Niro hybrid hit the same marks in a much more languid 8.9 and 6.2 seconds, respectively.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
• The oil on canvas shows an oarsman in a top hat rowing his skiff on languid waters.
  — Catherine Gaschka, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• There’s the languid pacing that leaves you breathing room to observe things for yourself.
  — Colin Covert, kansascity, 12 July 2018
• The story begins in 1986 on a languid afternoon in the Levys' Jerusalem apartment.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 20 Aug. 2019
• Jake led me through the club, walking with a languid gait, his shoulders rolled back so that his heart looked open and imperiled.
  — Allie Rowbottom, ELLE, 4 Nov. 2022
• This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
• This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• But the common consensus remains that its languid curveball is not one for the books.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• There is, in Luchetti’s moving if overly languid screenplay, the sense that there’s no linear progress to Ginia’s journey.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024