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How to use the word languishing in a Sentence?

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Inflation has continued to outpace wage growth, and mortgage rates remain significantly higher than the lows recorded in 2021, even though consumer sentiment has improved in recent months, it is still languishing at levels prevailing during the depths of the financial crisis.

Robert Gardner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pandemic took its toll ; we are languishing, some of us are languishing more than others.

Sheila Forman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For 10 days, the parents were languishing between the police station and government authorities and different political parties, they were not being given any time until it went viral. That is the real unfortunate thing over here.

Jibran Nasir

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Erotic cake of sweet fantasies You are like an erotic cake of sweet fantasies, you are so sweet that it seems to me that I will have caries and diabetes. Goddess of passionate nights, skin shining with stars. Beckons to do sex marathon with you for life. To the adventures of an erotic tale of eternal love. My soul sings about you, languishing from longing. I am filled with love and lust. My breath breathes love for you. To look at you is such a delightfully beautiful feeling, the spiritual aesthetics of the union of the soul with you. Lord, it's so beautiful what I feel for you. Each note of love is like a feather of a poet from which fly on the wings of love into the cosmos of infinite love for you, my love for you.

Erotic cake of sweet fantasies

added by Almat
4 years ago

European equities are set to edge higher...(But) the reality is that we are still languishing around the lows from the China devaluation sell-off.

Jonathan Sudaria

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The notion that I'm content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails ... that's nonsense, and you should know better.

The President

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The notion that I am content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails, Major, that's nonsense, and you should know better, i've met with the families of some of those folks. Nobody's content.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

May foreclosure numbers are a classic good news-bad news scenario, with the number of homeowners starting the foreclosure process stabilizing at pre-housing crisis levels but the number of homeowners actually losing their homes to foreclosure still well above pre-crisis levels and on the rise, lenders and courts are pushing through stubborn foreclosure cases that have been languishing in foreclosure limbo for years as options to prevent foreclosure are exhausted or left untapped.

Daren Blomquist

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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