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Example sentences for: languished

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When she recovered her power of speech, her English was so bad that she could not make herself understood, and she languished in the hospital for almost 40 years--till recently, when the hospital began to make arrangements to close and move her elsewhere.
But the rise of Hamiltonian thinking coincided with the eclipse of classical cytogenetics in favor of the molecular biology of model organisms, and these remarkable little chimeras have languished in undeserved obscurity.
By comparison, the coastal settlements languished, and were subject to frequent raids by Barbary pirates.
That proposal languished, but many observers noted that the high court could raise the fees without legislative approval.
But one might still ask why certain Midori-based drinks, such as the Melonball and the Pearl Harbor , became widely accepted, while others-- The Green Goddess, Early Spring in Kyoto --languished in the pages of Suntory's promotional literature.