LISTLESS in a Sentence

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63 example sentences for LISTLESS, such as:

1. He was listless and pale and wouldn't eat much.
2. The girls sat listless, leaning against each other.
3. Carol felt her arm tremble, though she was tearless, listless, plodding.
4. In Vida's demands Carol felt a compulsion, but she was too listless to obey.
5. We had expected him to be full of enthusiasm and were surprised by his listless attitude.

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 Meanings and Examples of LISTLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
listless
 a.  lacking in spirit or energy to exert effort
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  He told Ellen privately that it was a broken heart that made Scarlett so irritable and listless by turns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Here was, after all, something that her charming listless hands could really do; she had no doubt of their capacity for knotting a ribbon or placing a flower to advantage.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  For weeks past she had been too listless and indifferent to set her possessions in order, but now she began to examine systematically the contents of her drawers and cupboard.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  In Vida's demands Carol felt a compulsion, but she was too listless to obey.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Ten times a night they talked of going out to soak themselves with the hose and wade through the dew, but they were too listless to take the trouble.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Carol felt her arm tremble, though she was tearless, listless, plodding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  The girls sat listless, leaning against each other.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
9  He appeared somewhat reassured, on beholding her in the same listless attitude from which he had first roused her.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  When she reached the corner of the enclosure, where the steps were formed for mounting the boundary bank, she sprang up with a lightness which seemed strange after her listless movement towards the well.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
11  "No," said Charley, in the same listless tone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
12  Holmes sat silently, with his head thrown back and his eyes closed, in an attitude which might seem listless to a stranger, but which I knew betokened the most intense self-absorption.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
13  He had lost his listless expression, and again I saw an alert light of interest in his keen, deep-set eyes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
14  All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
15  The next day brought death and judgement, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigour of brain.
2  But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigor of brain.
3  We had expected him to be full of enthusiasm and were surprised by his listless attitude.
4  He was listless and pale and wouldn't eat much.