Voorbeelden van languish

• Unlike the unfortunate victims of disease, who languished in the stations' isolation hospitals, healthy detainees were often burdened by boredom and frustration.

• This 'hard core' kept their mouths closed, and languished for years in detention.

• Separated from one another, the lovers languish, but are eventually reunited by servants, their love restored and wiser.

• He regrets that meanwhile he himself languishes unprofitably and in listless ease.

• It seems necessary to repeat this truism quite frequently - and not merely for the benefit of those languishing in ignorance outside the academy.

• The urban areas languished, however, with rising prices and limited employment opportunities stirring discontent.

• Without a proper support system in nature and culture, however, human potential would languish.

• Despite these significant contributions, he has languished in obscurity.

• There is no doubt that in the absence of media support, the student frame would have languished indefinitely in relative obscurity.

• One goes free, while thousands languish their lives away.

• They languished in prison, a few escaped, some died, but none were required to face the court.

• The bill languished in the chamber until 1924, when it passed.

• At this social level, few women were at liberty to languish on their couches due to the pressing responsibilities of management.

• The aggregate of his advisors' views lent little enthusiasm to the administration's proposals, and in the absence of presidential involvement the issue languished.

• Both of them would languish under a multiplicity of opinions and never be confronted with what is just and true.