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Example sentences for: languish

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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.
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.
For instance, the line adopted in several recent Times pieces is that while extravagant musicals can score funding and bring in huge crowds of tourists, serious plays using experimental techniques and tackling risqué subjects languish.
There's another tortured family, too: Pistone's wife and three daughters, who languish in the absence of a steady father.
Stories about child molesting are populated by evil monsters and helpless innocents (rather than flawed or unfortunate humans), and they languish in a miasma of sinister eroticism.