How to Use languor in a Sentence

languor

noun
  • They enjoyed the languor brought on by a hot summer afternoon.
  • They felt an indefinable languor.
  • Not too long ago, this small seaside city had the languor of a sleepy beach town.
    — Sanjay Surana, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Several men languor in the sun on makeshift stools outside a garage bay.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • That there was this kind of languor, a little bit of maturity.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Austen wrings a great deal of humor from Lady Bertram’s dopey languor.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
  • August, for all its languor, is the urgent beginning of the end.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Poiret’s aesthetic was more aligned with the languor of a fictional harem.
    — Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Everyone was ready to shake off the languor of the hot afternoon and welcome in the shade of night.
    — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • This year, the languor was tinged with anxiety for lawmakers.
    — Nash Jenkins / Washington, Time, 4 Sep. 2017
  • There are two excellent reasons to savor the series, in all of its languor.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Soon Badminton, released from its lockdown languor, was teeming with masked members of the crew.
    — Georgia Beaufort, Vogue, 28 July 2021
  • The characters emote with the rich, sticky languor of a lava lamp, and none come to life with the force of those in the works to which Catán nods.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And yet Irene is mesmerized by Clare’s blond hair, her beautiful shoulders, her languor.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • All of which is to say that, given the resemblances between past and present, languor and doubt on the part of Resistance-minded artists don’t seem strange.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.
    — Daniel Felsenthal, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • Everything, always, is drenched in heavy yellow sunlight, as if the nation were basking in the languor of eternal late afternoon.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The companionable dynamics in his scenes with Melling and Kene are a treat and help to leaven the languor that sets in the back-half of the run-time.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The Twins were not satisfied with this hat trick of disappointment, disappearance and languor.
    — Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • Nothing like a little languor and ennui — and in crisp black-and-white — on the Algerian coast to usher out winter and into spring.
    — Jay Cannon, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Summer is a time of intense languor, a period that offers unrivaled ubiquity.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 12 July 2018
  • Regardless, what's largely lost is the editorial languor at most of the properties.
    — The Hive, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Last October, a friend and I, not quite ready to let go of summer’s languor, set out from Austin to spend a long weekend on a quiet stretch of sand.
    — Jordan Breal, New York Times, 6 June 2017
  • The range is vast, touching on reggae, krautrock, MPB, and the blues, and the thread that ties it all together is the languor of a hot summer’s day.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Both for the islanders and for us, the summer shimmers with a hallucinatory mixture of languor and emotional speed, as summers do in childhood.
    — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • Later, Margaret and Janie suffer as a teen boy at the drugstore rings up their sanitary pads with the languor of a James Bond villain.
    — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And the contrast with the actresses deep bronzed skin, the byproduct of the rich languor of golden afternoons in the heat, sipping drinks on ice and thinking of nothing other than what delights the senses.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 June 2021
  • Were only that same urgency and energy found in coverage of government at other levels, where increasingly one finds doubt, languor and a lack of resources.
    — The Hive, 16 Feb. 2017
  • On Girl Violence, Strauss drenches her songs in feedback and languor, adding heat to her expressions of desire and comfort to her feelings of anxiety.
    — Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
  • No wilting languor on this veranda — for that matter, no veranda either — just ferocity, desperation, and, of course, brutal desire.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025

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