Example sentences for: listless

How can you use “listless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rather, the process is like a giant heavenly gum-ball machine, where the bored and listless unborn souls wait to be selected.

  • Whereas Republicans would have to play hardball to beat Al Gore, Bradley is a "listless and uninspiring" candidate who could be vanquished quietly and nobly.

  • The film, about a gay antique dealer's murder trial, is called "listless, disjointed and disconnected" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Problems: endless digressions and a "simply unfilmable" book (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Praise goes to actors John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Alison Eastwood--Clint's daughter, for whom critics predict stardom.

  • Gigot says Elizabeth Dole is running a listless campaign and needs to start focusing on major issues of public concern.

  • Professional wishy-washiness has had unhappy consequences for Beatty himself, most recently in Love Affair (1994), the best-forgotten remake of An Affair to Remember --a listless vanity production with the impact of something viewed through the wrong end of a telescope.


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