skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "listlessly" in a sentence

    listlessly example sentences

    listlessly


    1. I don't want to be a priest,' Omi said listlessly


    2. ’ Andy said listlessly


    3. shifting of the winds and rolling waves, the next hour would find him with his arms hanging listlessly at his sides, fists clenching with the intermittent surges of emotion


    4. Then slowly, listlessly she moved on her own as they mounted the redoubt that had been the hoped-for sanctuary for them—all


    5. Pharaoh sat upon his throne listlessly twirling the tassel that adorned his scepter while he reviewed the many disaster-related affairs of State that were presented to him by his grand vizier


    6. “Somehow,” Moshe murmured, as he swiped listlessly at the swarm of flies circling his head


    7. Pharaoh sat upon his throne listlessly twirling the tassel that adorned his scepter while he


    8. ‘ Rodney said listlessly


    9. answered phone calls listlessly, and two out of three callers asked whether Harry


    10. So it was that the crew sat about listlessly, trying to expend as little energy as possible

    11. She wandered listlessly around the


    12. Her father stood on the sidewalk, leaning heavily on his cane, exhaling heavily, the vapors drifting listlessly above his head


    13. If wishing is all, what apathy – energy the Play-Doh of the metaphysical speculation, a sea-beached god twiddling counterfactuals for the bemusement of their indifference listlessly flipping probabilities, a mindless fusion of what if's, without adventuring upon any of the steps the stone is burdened with, that drowns the coin's refugees in wells without escape


    14. listlessly around on her plate until he was through talking about the matter for that moment


    15. Two days following, Anne listlessly watched a few of her servants prepare the area by the


    16. One warm morning Grace sat in her bedroom, listlessly looking through a


    17. her face while her eyes were listlessly downcast


    18. Stedder sat splayed in the shade of his shack, listlessly waving away the irksome dust-flies, when he became aware of a group of near-elders bustling up the street, some from his cadre and others that he did not recognize


    19. Listlessly glancing up and down between the can and razor in his hand and his scraggly image in the mirror, the mute locksmith struggled to make up his mind


    20. "What things?" she asked; and her hands, lying listlessly on her lap, were flaccid and damp

    21. "I don't care about the fish," repeated Priscilla listlessly


    22. He lived it down as one lives down every sorrow and every joy; and when in the fulness of time, after a series of years in which he went about listlessly in a soft felt hat and an unsatisfactory collar, he married, it was to Priscilla's capital that he went for his honeymoon


    23. The air was stuffy and stale, listlessly hanging in the room like the feeble light


    24. She watched listlessly as he wrote out a prescription


    25. Looking to her sister, Shela saw Fionn fidgeting listlessly with Kearney’s fur, grinding her fingers into the animal’s tough hide


    26. Next morning in Ekaete’s room, ebele is listlessly PACKING HER things


    27. "My lodging," he answered, listlessly


    28. And these waters I listlessly daily cross, are these the waters he cross'd, As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?


    29. While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing lighted tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man beside her


    30. Caderousse, then, was, as usual, at his place of observation before the door, his eyes glancing listlessly from a piece of closely shaven grass—on which some fowls were industriously, though fruitlessly, endeavoring to turn up some grain or insect suited to their palate—to the deserted road, which led away to the north and south, when he was aroused by the shrill voice of his wife, and grumbling to himself as he went, he mounted to her chamber, first taking care, however, to set the entrance door wide open, as an invitation to any chance traveller who might be passing

    31. A smaller girl with scars of eczema on her forehead eyed him, listlessly holding her battered caskhoop


    32. Alexey Alexandrovitch took no interest in the race, and so he did not watch the racers, but fell listlessly to scanning the spectators with his weary eyes


    33. Annushka went out, but Anna did not begin dressing, and sat in the same position, her head and hands hanging listlessly, and every now and then she shivered all over, seemed as though she would make some gesture, utter some word, and sank back into lifelessness again


    34. She listlessly placed her basket and bundle within the dog-cart, and stepped up, and they sat side by side


    35. The night came in, and took up its place there, unconcerned and indifferent; the night which had already swallowed up his happiness, and was now digesting it listlessly; and was ready to swallow up the happiness of a thousand other people with as little disturbance or change of mien


    36. Tess listlessly lent a hand, and in a quarter of an hour the old four-post bedstead was dissociated from the heap of goods, and erected under the south wall of the church, the part of the building known as the d'Urberville Aisle, beneath which the huge vaults lay


    37. His staff was crowned by an iron spider painted white and red, with the black banner of the Webbers hanging listlessly beneath


    38. ) Banners of the white-maned man hung listlessly from lamp poles, posters curled up in the heat


    39. Suddenly something caught his sight: at first he stared at it listlessly, then he sat up and rubbed his


    40. It sat just below me, rotating listlessly among the splintered light

    41. He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird


    42. Mathews?" asked Bodoni, listlessly


    43. Al drove listlessly, hunched back in the seat, his hand hooked easily over the cross-bar of the steering wheel; his gray hat, peaked and pulled to an incredibly cocky shape, was low over one eye; and as he drove, he turned and spat out the side now and then


    44. They settled lazily into the water and washed listlessly at their flanks


    45. The puff-ball clouds, dropped by the falling wind, hung listlessly in the sky


    46. The moody boy served the beans listlessly


    47. Now what, she wondered listlessly


    48. ‘My lodging,’ he answered, listlessly


    49. Her light, transparent skirts rose like a cloud about her slender waist; one bare, thin, soft, girlish arm, hanging listlessly, was lost in the folds of her pink tunic; in the other she held her fan, and with rapid, short strokes fanned her burning face


    50. Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch listened inattentively and listlessly with his official smile, and at last even impatiently, and seemed all the time on the point of breaking away






    Show more examples

    "listlessly" definitions

    in a listless manner