How to Use languish in a Sentence

languish

verb

• Statham fell off and in 2019 Bautista first came aboard before the project once again languished.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• The industry has languished in a weird no-man’s-land on social media for years.
  — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, the investigation into the killing languished.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• 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
• That is threatening to end a brief reprieve for stocks and riskier types of bonds, which both languished last year as yields climbed rapidly.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• That definition lets a lot of people fall through the cracks to languish and eventually die on the streets.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
• Right now, there is no time limit, and many cases languish for years before they're processed.
  — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Instead, the proposal has languished at the Office of Management and Budget for a year, since April 2022.
  — Peter G. Lurie and Beth Ellikidis, STAT, 17 Apr. 2023
• Proposals to cancel the arena’s tax break have languished in Albany for years.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• There may still be some pumpkins languishing on doorsteps, but in the world of nail art, Thanksgiving is old news–Christmastime is here.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2023
• The player who holds the program record for points scored in Galen Center did not return for a fifth year of college just to languish in 11th place in the conference standings.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Over the decades, the act often has been seen as too restrictive, leaving people with mental health disorders to languish in the streets.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• The market had languished for a decade after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan prompted the closure of dozens of reactors.
  — WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
• Reddish had been languishing on the Knicks’ bench after falling out of favor with coach Tom Thibodeau.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 6 May 2023
• The Iranian clerics realized that the Shah’s pilots were too valuable to languish in jail.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Some of those roads, including Fireweed Lane, have sidewalks that have languished uncleared the longest.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
• And one of the biggest, top-of-mind goals for the team was to bring back the old browser games that have languished in digital purgatory since Adobe stopped supporting Flash in 2020.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 July 2023
• The British singer and songwriter’s fifth studio album was languishing in third place during the first half of the chart week, before Bitter Sweet Love grew wings and edged into the lead.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024