How to Use languid in a Sentence

languid

adjective
  • It was a hot, languid summer day.
  • They proceeded at a languid pace.
  • The whole process set a languid pace for life there, and a lot of people liked it that way.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Options run the gamut from versions with sleeves to languid gowns.
    — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2022
  • This trip, on a cold and wet winter day, will not allow for a languid boat ride.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • The alliance had grown languid in the decades since the Cold War.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The colors are liquid and languid, but there is a tension to the work.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • This languid bop will get you through the rocky waves of life, but don't let the smooth groove the song is built on fool you.
    — Courtney E. Smith, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • In-stead the focus is on the beach and the languid turquoise waters beyond.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
  • To the right, a huge osprey took off from a telephone pole with a few languid flaps of its dark wings.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Liberowe’s black lace maxi is easy yet ethereal for languid summer days.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 25 May 2026
  • But each, in its own way, was an intervention, a break from long, languid days.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • These are languid, let the sun beat down on you while draping your toes in the cool water below, trips.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Thus is the film’s strange, languid erotic holding pattern set.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The oil on canvas shows an oarsman in a top hat rowing his skiff on languid waters.
    — Catherine Gaschka, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a lot of time in between songs, meaning the 70-minute clip has a languid pace.
    — al, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Baseball has hit the fast-forward button on the languid pace of its season.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2020
  • Summer was made for slow, languid days and stories that linger long after the final page.
    — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Aren’t the languid purple wisteria blooms so pretty this time of year?
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Much time is spent crafting the world the story is built on with the premise moving forward at a languid pace.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • There’s the languid pacing that leaves you breathing room to observe things for yourself.
    — Colin Covert, kansascity, 12 July 2018
  • As love blooms, so do their souls, in the patient, languid manner of tea leaves steeping in water.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The perfect spot for a languid afternoon with your favorite tome.
    — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 22 May 2026
  • As states roll in, the needle, like a grand, languid leviathan, inches toward the winning side.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • But the common consensus remains that its languid curveball is not one for the books.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • For a fresh take, contrast the coat's hue with languid layers in a zippy citrus yellow.
    — Nicole Kliest, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Jake led me through the club, walking with a languid gait, his shoulders rolled back so that his heart looked open and imperiled.
    — Allie Rowbottom, ELLE, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The battery of barracuda (yes, en masse they are called that) soon shifted course, and we were left to our languid strokes.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019

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