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Example sentences for: languish

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But Hispanic students, for whom bilingual education was originally designed, languish in a "well-upholstered trap."
The OED2e lists about five dozen -ard words to describe people of unsavory character or underdeveloped intellect, and all but the handful above now languish in dusty disuse.
There's another tortured family, too: Pistone's wife and three daughters, who languish in the absence of a steady father.
At some point you ought to wake up to your responsibility not to let vice take place in darkness and not to let virtue languish unnoticed.
New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its "annoying cuteness."