(v. i.) To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
(v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
(v. i.) To cause to droop or pine.
(n.) See Languishiment.
Example Sentences:
(1) While it is true that Clinton’s favorability rating is languishing among all voters, her favorability among Democrats is as robust as Biden’s, at nearly 75% .
(2) But life is very difficult now.” Urmani motions to the river opposite, languishing green and motionless.
(3) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
(4) He had a lot more fire in him than I think that I’ve seen.” Bush has nonetheless found himself spiraling from a once-presumed nominee to languishing in single-digits, as his former ally Marco Rubio has risen as a viable alternative for the Republican establishment.
(5) China remains a key challenge for Nokia, with its market share languishing at 3.5%.
(6) We are continuing to see heart wrenching reports of sexual abuse and assault, self-harm and hopelessness of refugees detained on Nauru and Manus Island with over 2,000 people left to languish in detention,” Szoke said.
(7) We've said, in relation to young people, we shouldn't be letting them languish out of work.
(8) He spent a lot of the year languishing outside the top 10, failing to beat any of the players above him, and in November he suffered a humiliating 6-0, 6-1 defeat to Federer in front of a London crowd at the 02 Arena.
(9) Read more If Africa continued missing out on the full benefits of its mineral wealth by exporting its resources in their raw or semi-raw form, said Mugabe, people would remain unemployed and languishing “in extreme poverty”.
(10) A decade ago, Glasgow languished as " the murder capital of western Europe ", with rates of knife crime and homicide more than double those in London, but its homicide rate has fallen by a third since the early 2000s, and violent crime is also decreasing.
(11) Schools languished too long in that situation, and that’s one reason why the Labour party first brought in the academy model: to help such schools.
(12) Holland, who are languishing in fourth in Iceland’s qualifying group, have 1,138,860.
(13) One example: over three days last week we tried to find a scarce bed for a mentally ill and highly distressed 17-year-old languishing for far too many hours in an A&E department.
(14) Now, millions of working people who would otherwise be languishing in abject poverty depend on these tax credits.
(15) Perhaps he had thousands of works by forgotten artists he couldn't sell languishing in storerooms.
(16) She said as prime minster, she had achieved major reforms that had languished under Rudd, including putting a price on carbon, a tax on the mining and resources industry, a national broadband network and health reform.
(17) Her gladiatorial, win-every-day, with-us-or-against-us style was aimed at one thing: dragging the Coalition’s primary vote up from where it was languishing at the time, 35%.
(18) It is unconscionable that she languished in prison for years while those allegedly implicated by the information she revealed still haven’t been brought to justice.” But the commutation was condemned by leading Republicans.
(19) After languishing in third place for much of the campaign , the Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau - son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau - seem set to return to power.
(20) He didn’t languish in movie jail like Mickey Rourke; he didn’t fall off the map for a decade like Dennis Hopper.
Pant
Definition:
(v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
(v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
(v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
(v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
(v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
(v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.
(n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
(n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
(2) If the pants did become available in clinics, Dukelow said costs might be around a few hundred dollars (around £125) for the basic equipment plus a few tens of dollars per month for the disposable electrodes.
(3) In addition, we have also validated the use of Vtgpant at a low panting frequency in these subjects.
(4) When water was offered more than 15 min after the end of a period of heating, after panting had ceased, drinking occurred only if the water loss exceeded 50-70 g, about 0-6% of the body water.
(5) Amphibolurus muricatus, a species restricted to the more mesic regions of Australia, does not show any change of panting threshold with progressive dehydration.
(6) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
(7) The anti-ball crushing pants, or ABC pants, for short, have been all the rage since they were introduced at the end of last year, Lululemon says.
(8) To dilate any pulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses, the birds were warmed to induce panting, killed with chloroform, or injected intravenously with papavarine.
(9) Studies in respiratory physiology and acid-base balance of panting birds exposed to high Tas show that flying as well as nonflying birds can use the respiratory system simultaneously for gas exchange and evaporative cooling.
(10) We suggest that specializations of the soft palate and epiglottis in dogs for thermal panting appear to restrict the formation of an adequate oropharyngeal seal during feeding.
(11) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
(12) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(13) I imagined him sitting in the car panting at my shoulder all the way and then yipping with excitement when we pulled into the layby.
(14) Intraperitoneal injections of a dopamine antagonist, haloperidol, induced a marked hypothermia, due to a downward shift of the threshold central temperature for induction of cold thermogenesis, panting and vasodilation.
(15) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
(16) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
(17) hour)(-1) as air temperature was increased from 10 degrees to 50 degrees C. Evaporation of the fluid from the paired glands could account for between 19 and 36 percent of the increase in respiratory evaporation associated with thermal panting.
(18) blocked panting and attenuated the decrease in Tb caused by i.c.v.
(19) During exercise, panting usually occurred in short regular bursts of about 10 sec duration, whereas during both mild and severe heat stress it occurred in bursts of irregular but usually longer duration.
(20) What a different kind of party it would be if the GOP could expand the not-caring-about-pants sphere beyond Mark Sanford!