listlessly

Example Sentences

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Listlessly scroll through your EPG on a quiet night when your resolve is weak, and I defy you not to at least see what any of these shows actually are.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013

Listlessly he retraced his steps and stood before the open door of the place.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Listlessly, they completed their survey, which confirmed that the first French team was correct.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Listlessly, mechanically she took him in her arms, and went out into the garden which was fragrant and sweet with dew and sun.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Listlessly raising the sketch sidewise, so that a gas jet on his left shone upon it, he looked at it.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans