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Meanings of languish in in английском

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Usage of languish in in английском
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She said she was not going to repine and languish in sorrow.
A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny
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Morton sit fifth in the standings while Dunfermline now languish in ninth.
BBC
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No one has yet been hanged, but those convicted languish in prison.
Reuters
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It found that hundreds of people continue to languish in inappropriate Victorian institutions.
The Irish Times
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While most have returned home, many languish in camps and with host families.
Reuters
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It can even be left to languish in the desks of government bureaucrats.
Reuters
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As games preparations rev up, around 80 political prisoners languish in Azerbaijani prisons.
The Guardian
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Once defeated, whatever the reason, they may forever languish in limbo.
The Nation's River: A report on the Potomac / From the U.S. Depa...
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He allowed his own flesh and blood to languish in a loathsome cell.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
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II Medeghino was not, however, destined to languish in a dungeon.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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Idleness exposed me to melancholy, and life began to languish in motionless indifference.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / ...
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They languish in the aluminum bucket, getting warmer by the minute.
The Irish Times
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Time's march moves slowly, where weary lives languish in dull places.
The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
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Is that a country of liberty, where thousands languish in dungeons and fetters?
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
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A man of Mr. Smithson's wealth-andgood nature-neednot languish in single blessedness.'
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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If so, all the better; and may enterprise for ever languish in the matter.
At a Winter's Fire
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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