Example Sentences

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Energy stocks have followed rising oil prices, which were languishing in the danger zone for many American producers before climbing this year as tensions flared in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Instead, some bodies were languishing in a building, some for four years.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

The information raised the possibility that hundreds of packets for which families had paid dearly were languishing unread somewhere on Temple Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

At the time of the trade, the Mets were in first place in the NL East, 13-6, while the Giants were languishing at the bottom of the NL West at 8-16.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2022

Reports reached us that these Polish Jews were languishing on the border in a squalid no-man's-land of temporary camps.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson