How to Use languish in a Sentence

languish

verb

• This is a chamber where bills go to languish and die a slow death.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
• The trick is to give them something to climb, or else their vines will languish in a mildewy mess on the ground.
  — Alex Testere, Saveur, 24 July 2024
• Indeed, agents should languish in the 1950s at their own risk.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• Statham fell off and in 2019 Bautista first came aboard before the project once again languished.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• But by the 1980s French Fumé began to languish as Sancerre started to soar.
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• The vote marked a pivotal moment for the bill, which has languished for over a decade in Congress.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 27 June 2024
• At the time, the old mule barns had languished in disrepair for decades, and the empty street was used for parking.
  — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2024
• So instead of guessing how long your catch has been languishing on a bed of ice, look to the freezer case.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
• The company’s stock has languished mostly under $10 a share for the past two years.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• That may be the most common put-down of the White House dreamers who are languishing in the pre-primary polls.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
• The sprawling nine-bedroom estate at the heart of the real estate war has languished empty for the last two years.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
• Without the votes to move forward, Greene’s attempt to oust Johnson may languish in the halls of Congress.
  — Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
• Busch needs to play every day and languishing on the bench in the majors does his career no favors.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• The Lions then hired Wood as team president, but have languished in a state of mediocrity for years.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
• After Shane Porter’s death, his family let the Jeepster languish in the garage.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• Many of the others land in jail cells or squalid street encampments, or languish in back bedrooms.
  — Sally Satel, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
• The industry has languished in a weird no-man’s-land on social media for years.
  — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, Argan shares languish at less than five times free cash flow.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• At the same time, the investigation into the killing languished.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• The club enters this weekend languishing in fifth place in the Bundesliga, its form patchy, its progress stalled.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 May 2024
• Some of those that do cap the number of people who can get help, leaving people to languish on waiting lists for years.
  — Bryce Covert, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• The early bird gets the worm — don’t let those applications languish.
  — Vivian Wang, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Cheaper than the $25 million house that is languishing on the market less than ten minutes away.
  — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
• But as costs doubled and a new mayor was elected in 2021, Puckett’s idea languished.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Why does one school prosper while the other languishes?
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Mims, a second-round pick in 2020, requested a trade last year but languished on the Jets roster all season.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
• But when jetliners hit the scene, rail travel languished.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
• Then, that confirmation languished for more than nine months because Schumer never brought it up for a vote on the floor.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 July 2023
• Meanwhile, the remaining Israeli hostages who have not been murdered by Hamas continue to languish in the tunnels beneath Gaza.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
• The sport is languishing locally, with lower attendance, mutuel handle and foal crop (number of horses born).
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024