How to Use languor in a Sentence

languor

noun

• They enjoyed the languor brought on by a hot summer afternoon.
• They felt an indefinable languor.
• Not too long ago, this small seaside city had the languor of a sleepy beach town.
  — Sanjay Surana, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
• Several men languor in the sun on makeshift stools outside a garage bay.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• The range is vast, touching on reggae, krautrock, MPB, and the blues, and the thread that ties it all together is the languor of a hot summer’s day.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
• August, for all its languor, is the urgent beginning of the end.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• Poiret’s aesthetic was more aligned with the languor of a fictional harem.
  — Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
• Last October, a friend and I, not quite ready to let go of summer’s languor, set out from Austin to spend a long weekend on a quiet stretch of sand.
  — Jordan Breal, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• The hours before a baseball game have a languor to them: kids gawking on the edges of the field, big-leaguers thwacking batting-practice home runs.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• All of which is to say that, given the resemblances between past and present, languor and doubt on the part of Resistance-minded artists don’t seem strange.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
• Later, Margaret and Janie suffer as a teen boy at the drugstore rings up their sanitary pads with the languor of a James Bond villain.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
• Soon Badminton, released from its lockdown languor, was teeming with masked members of the crew.
  — Georgia Beaufort, Vogue, 28 July 2021
• This year, the languor was tinged with anxiety for lawmakers.
  — Nash Jenkins / Washington, Time, 4 Sep. 2017
• And yet Irene is mesmerized by Clare’s blond hair, her beautiful shoulders, her languor.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• And the contrast with the actresses deep bronzed skin, the byproduct of the rich languor of golden afternoons in the heat, sipping drinks on ice and thinking of nothing other than what delights the senses.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 June 2021
• Everything, always, is drenched in heavy yellow sunlight, as if the nation were basking in the languor of eternal late afternoon.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2021
• The Twins were not satisfied with this hat trick of disappointment, disappearance and languor.
  — Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
• A sense of languor pervades: a sluggish Seine, sculpted chestnut trees billowing in the breeze and noticeably fewer people.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2017
• Only an Octave Apart feels tinted by the shutdown — the faint pink of its languor, the deep blue of its loneliness, and the shimmering silver of our slightly out-of-control emotional release.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
• Regardless, what's largely lost is the editorial languor at most of the properties.
  — The Hive, 27 Mar. 2017
• Gone are the formal banquets of saffron-stained, rose-scented languor — and the protein-bar and light-beer cravings of the American contractors who roamed the secure confines of Kabul’s Green Zone diplomatic enclave.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• He was born in Israel to parents of Moroccan and Yemeni descent, and his songwriting often balances desert languor with cosmopolitan urgency.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Smartphones and their peripherals will continue to proliferate, and with their spread comes a melty languor: Things that once felt simple and good have become complex and insufferable.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• Summer is a time of intense languor, a period that offers unrivaled ubiquity.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• Were only that same urgency and energy found in coverage of government at other levels, where increasingly one finds doubt, languor and a lack of resources.
  — The Hive, 16 Feb. 2017
• Taking cues from Éric Rohmer’s summertime romantic comedy-dramas, Petzold fills much of the film with routine errands, trips to the beach, and aimless conversations over dinner—scenes of leisure and languor that appear plotless.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
• Snyder’s take on the classic American beach home— where John Derian oyster shell wallpaper, off-white hardwood floors, and sisal rugs envelop guests in luxurious languor.
  — Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Somewhere (2010), another study of languor in a luxury hotel and Coppola’s only other original screenplay, is also her finest film.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 23 June 2017
• The images Sissako unscrolls are artfully composed and arrestingly exotic, and the film's meditative languor conveys a feeling of mystery and regret.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 26 Feb. 2018
• Then the pace accelerated on the ensuing Presto, Zehetmair emphasizing gradual shifts from rigor to languor then back, as if suddenly awakening from slumber.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 9 June 2017

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024