listlessly

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“Gray raindrops pattered listlessly on the kitchen window, obscuring the thin morning light” as Honor Wilson is found smearing “a dot of margarine across some toast.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The initiatives, he said, “have absolutely sparked a fire under people who have been depressed and not participating in the politics or participating listlessly and not having faith that something good can happen.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

She's listlessly sitting near a creepy Christmas tree whose lights are powered by a nearly spent battery, gazing into nothingness.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2024

“Scores of the children will be seen sitting listlessly on the steps of the tenements or playing half-hearted games on the streets,” a New Yorker worried of city summers in 1903.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2023

She let her hand he listlessly, as though her thoughts were elsewhere— somewhere in advance of her body, and she was striving to overtake them.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin