LANGUOR in a Sentence

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For LANGUOR, below is one of 36 sentences:
One point was evident in this; that she had been existing in a suppressed state, and not in one of languor, or stagnation.

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 Meanings and Examples of LANGUOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
languor
 n.  feeling of lack of interest or energy; depression
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  There was no carelessness, no languor, no idle curiosity; none of the many shades of indifference to be seen in all other assemblies, visible for one moment there.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
2  Her tone of calm languor, for she never took the trouble of raising her voice, was always heard and attended to; and Sir Thomas came back.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Now it was languor, and all but solitude.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  If Lady Bertram, with all her incompetency and languor, could feel this, the inference of what her niece, alive and enlightened as she was, must feel, was elevating.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  Yet, in spite of all this, Anne had reason to believe that she had moments only of languor and depression, to hours of occupation and enjoyment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  One point was evident in this; that she had been existing in a suppressed state, and not in one of languor, or stagnation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
7  "I knew it meant work," she said, drooping to languor again.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
8  It incidentally showed that her apparent languor did not arise from lack of force.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
9  Clym then went into the garden; and a thoughtful languor stole over Eustacia for the remainder of the afternoon, which her husband attributed to the heat of the weather.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
10  This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
11  The languor of midday had taken hold of the gathering, but underneath lurked tempers that could rise to killing heights in a second and flare out as quickly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  This sense of physical discomfort was the first to assert itself; then she perceived, beneath it, a corresponding mental prostration, a languor of horror more insufferable than the first rush of her disgust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
13  It was not a scorching, hard, dusty day like the treacherous intruder of a week before, but soaked with languor, softened with a milky light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
15  His eyes gathered in and reflected the light and languor of the summer day.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  His friends tried to overcome the languor into which he had fallen by taking him to parties and to the theater.