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LANGUISHING
Traducere în limba română
languishing I. adjectiv
1. care tânjeşte, care lâncezeşte.
2. galeş, languros.
3. încet, domol.
languishing II. substantiv, vezi languidness.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I am myself a soldier's daughter, she added, casting a somewhat languishing glance at John, and my heart ever goes out to a brave man.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the universe notices that a situation is languishing and is unproductive, it will pull you out of it in the blink of an eye.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Sometimes they were the expressive eyes of Henry, languishing in death, the dark orbs nearly covered by the lids and the long black lashes that fringed them; sometimes it was the watery, clouded eyes of the monster, as I first saw them in my chamber at Ingolstadt.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)