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Sentence Examples After dealing with frizz and the issues faced by blondes, he turned his attention to brunettes, whose main complaint was dull, listless hair. I was listless, too sick and weak to say much of anything to defend myself. If you forget that you are ambassadors, your work will be feeble, listless and inefficient, because nerveless and sinewless. After seemingly endless weeks of constant commotion, they appear listless and lethargic. A full stomach draws blood to the belly and away from the brain, leaving you listless and dull. The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and apathetic. You may feel tired and listless physically and need to balance your diet, manage stress and take care of health problems. It was ritualised, listless clapping, not genuine congratulation at fine play. The streets are so listless and dull that every time I walk down one I can't help feeling they want me to be sad too. When we lose touch with our authentic desire, we become listless and apathetic. He used to become depressed upon finishing an album, the creative high replaced by a listless slough of despond. There were no excuses from the Harrison camp but the Scottish fighter looked untypically listless for much of the fight. Here again the listless rhythms gather images and ideas into poems of real power. The children are never free from illnesses and disease, always hungry, always listless. The greater part have spent their time in the most listless and insipid indolence, chagrined at the thoughts of their own insignificancy. You'd never guess such a thing from this 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor. The listless llamas, who live with a five-year-old male llama, Murphy, and some sheep, have not left their Helmsley field for 12 months. Within a few days I felt lousy, weak, listless. I ran a low-grade fever for a few days, and my head hurt. Katherine forced herself to move and continue on her rounds, encouraging tired and listless men. On Sunday, they were listless throughout and the two goal winning margin is a flattering one from their perspective. Show More Sentences Even the goldfish in the pond and the birds in the hedge seem listless and disinterested. Increasingly, however, he was becoming listless and withdrawn, refusing invitations to play and grooming himself disconsolately. However, these symptoms may be absent and children may simply become feverish, drowsy and listless. I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy. Both my grandmothers wore shapeless, listless, grandmotherly dresses with baggy bosoms and they donned sturdy black oxford-type shoes. Equally effective is Brigge's anxious scrutiny of newborn Samuel, who flutters between listless near-death and bubble-blowing bonniness. Pride, as they say, is all that is left to play for, but even that appears in short supply in two listless, morale-free, rugby nations. She was listless, helpless, but not suicidal, and used cocaine sporadically. He brought an extra life to the character who stands listless before a deluge of tragedies as his children die in succession. And their gutter-laden, trashy sound is fresh and invigorating when every other punk band today overproduces their album into listless cookie-cutter status. A day came when she was feeling listless and miserable, and as if in answer to her need, the sight of a gaily coloured open carriage broke her mood like a bubble. They aren't making revolution in this hothouse, they're making a listless blue movie. The dangers that dwell in a good story collection are the occasional listless pup, the willing but weak sister. Her friend seemed so apathetic and listless she wanted to shake her. Jam is there because of the sudden death of her boyfriend, Reeve, and the listless state of major depression it throws her into. The wife is a listless bedspread for her husband and children, whereas he prefers the café to the domestic unpleasantness. While such realizations have left me listless and leaning towards self-flagellation for the past couple of years, I have managed this week to revive my spirit. The protesters were listless in the midday furnace of the equatorial sun but their message was fierce and clear. Tired and hungry before their sundown breakfast, then sated and listless afterwards, millions of the faithful surrender to channel-flipping. The initial debate between Eck and Carlstadt covered extensive theological ground but was listless. Show More Sentences If the animal remains listless, grasp it by its hind legs and whirl it around a few times. After an active phase, people may be listless, have trouble concentrating and be withdrawn. Habsu sold off 3 goats and 3 cows-all listless and scrawny-in order to pay for food. They may become easily confused, have trouble concentrating, and feel listless and apathetic, preferring to spend most of their days alone. The arrival of a Hungarian engineer Szabolcs to help him in his job upsets the balance of their mundane and listless existence. They did regather for one last effort but despite an onslaught which produced a yellow card for the listless Boks' captain Joost van der Westhuizen the home defence held out. Some of the prose seems, dare I say it, listless, almost bored. He had been listless, short of stamina and unable to make his mark on the match, all of which is more troubling than his miss in the penalty shoot-out. But watching this torpid, listless movie is like Scuba-diving in treacle. The movie is bookended by two hard-working but listless sea battles. Don's picture captures the listless, boarded-up feel of the place better than mine does, but I fell too much in love with the lifts and wanted to make them look beautiful. Some fail and lose and are downright boring and listless. The great herd of mankind pass their lives in listless inattention and indifference as to what is going on around them, while those who are destined to distinction have a lynx-eyed vigilance that nothing can escape. Often we feel listless and tired simply because we are dehydrated. Seems unusually drowsy, listless, weak, or limp. While capex plans for this year have improved, they still remain listless, despite the strong Canadian dollar, which reduces the cost of capital equipment. It is indeed towards a mass of listless air, without any significant pressure differences and therefore with no real winds that the six Imoca boats in the north are now heading. The animals are listless and eat little or not at all. Despite the modern look that distinguishes Caltanissetta from the other towns of the interior, this provincial capital lies in the same listless torpor that characterizes many countries in the Sicilian hinterland. Most of the people seemed to be listless beyond hope and astonishment. Show More Sentences All of Sumaya's siblings are sick, bleary-eyed, and listless. I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless. The White House response to Tuesday's results has been listless at best. Bursting with new-found confidence and superbly organised by the ball-winning midfield trio of Pavel Nedved, Tiago and Mohamed Sissoko, Juventus out-thought and outplayed a listless Real Madrid side. It is listless and feverish, its eyes half closed. The next morning, noting the listless condition of his weakened mounts, Tschiffely took advantage of a local remedy and started coating the animals with ground pepper every night. Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky. However, some signs of ill health are obvious, with sick sheep eating little, vocalizing excessively, and being generally listless. The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened. As I turned, my listless glance included the man below in the churchyard. If the power of affording it be placed under the direction of the Union, there will be no danger of a supine and listless inattention to the dangers of a neighbor. Examples from Classical Literature He was utterly listless and strengthless, although the voyage did him a little good. There was a listless melancholy, a lonely weariness in his look and movements. Years in the factory had made them dead, listless, soulless and ambitionless creatures. He dropped with a listless weariness into the chair that Greta drew up to the fire. My listless singer was not the nonpareil, nor even a finch of any kind, but a yellow-throated warbler. She fell into fits of hysteria, sat whole hours listless, with her feet on the fender. Within a few months perhaps they are pale, anaemic, listless. An air of awestruck expectation had replaced their usual listless apathy. Rateau, disconsolate, let the feather duster fall from his listless hand. She watched till the postman passed by, ran out to him with her epistle, and then again took her listless place inside the window-panes. She relapsed into her listless attitude, and made a faint gesture of intolerance. The Master said, Never listless when spoken to, such was hui. Arthur's cheery acceptance of the news that she received invitations from others had been like a blow, leaving her numb and listless. Quite gentle, quite affectionate, but listless and untalkative. All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy. I had been motoring in a listless, solitary fashion about Languedoc. Eventually, however, she lapsed into a sort of listless immobility. She shook violently for a while before she answered in a listless voice. When met in the open, the prairie wolf seems so weary and listless. To even the little manliness his classical prototypes possessed, though, he can lay no claim whatever, being a listless effeminate noodle, on the shady side of forty. Show More Sentences And then she informs me that I wear it so to hide an ugly line she says I have down the middle of my forehead, and that betokens a listless and discontented disposition. They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn. Up went a handful of soft snow, and the head turned at once, showing a face which lost its listless look in a minute, as the big eyes brightened and the mouth began to smile. Find more words! 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