Example Sentences

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Their stocks have languished this year, because there aren’t clear rules in PJM about how the companies can sell their power to tech companies, who want it for their data centers.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Sometimes it gets old: A number of established dual-class companies have languished in the past decade under family control, including Tyson Foods, J.M.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Applications submitted as early as May 2025 — technically subject to a mandated 45-day review window — have languished for months without response.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

Much has been made of the fact that two Premier League sides who have languished in the division's bottom half for most of the season could face off in the Europa League final.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

All of its members, not just those like Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton with famously impoverished origins, would have languished in obscurity in England or France.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis