languish for
Example Sentences
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The incarcerated population is rapidly aging as individuals convicted in their youth languish for decades under mandatory minimums.
From Slate • Dec. 2, 2024
Yet unlike the Ukrainians, these refugees are forced to languish for years in inhumane, slum-like camps, while their children are denied schooling.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022
He and other labour activists allege that in many industrial accidents, cases languish for years while the accused are released on bail.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2022
From there, it was a long slog to the bottom of the depreciation curve, where cars would often languish for years, sometimes decades, before nostalgia-driven interest drove values up again.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
Without it the war may languish for years, to the infinite distress of our country, to the exhausting both of France and England, and the question left to be decided by another war.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I by Sparks, Jared
