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
• Add a shower of bright herbs to liven up beans that have languished in a can in the back of your pantry.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 6 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Watch her return to her small-town Rust Belt home and languish in the big vibes and wistful mood.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 25 Nov. 2020
• Today millions of refugees languish in refugee camps around the world.
  — Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• Householder let the bill languish for more than a year.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
• 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
• And at the same time, compassion isn't just letting (the homeless) stay there and languish.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2021
• The film has languished in development hell ever since Kevin Smith took a stab at the script in 1995.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2019
• 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
• SoftBank’s languishing share price leapt by 7% on the news of Elliott’s stake.
  — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
• 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
• But there was no new trial, and Edwards would languish in prison for nearly two decades.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
• After Shane Porter’s death, his family let the Jeepster languish in the garage.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• The Panthers have languished near the bottom all season in goals allowed.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Many of those who were chased from their homes languish in camps near towns like el-Fasher or in neighbouring Chad.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• So, for now, old CDs languish in basement or attics, or just end up with other plastics — in the trash.
  — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• But for decades, fine china has been in decline, with fancy sets lining the shelves of thrift shops and languishing at estate sales.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Since her death, much of her work has languished in a storage locker, dusted off only for a small local exhibition in 2015.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025