How to Use listless in a Sentence

listless

adjective

• The party was a listless affair.
• The heat made everyone tired and listless.
• His at-bats over the past two weeks often looked listless.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• The three-person cast is not afraid to look dumpy or tired or listless.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 May 2018
• But wind speeds that afternoon were a listless five miles an hour.
  — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
• Streams that brimmed with rising trout in May can be listless and low.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• Now, as the season draws to a close, the Padres look listless.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Who goes down by 10 in a listless first half, then wins by 29?
  — Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 May 2018
• The air was damp and listless and the heat was something to wade through, thick as molasses.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• The car spun in listless circles around my bed, came to a grumpy stop, and meowed at me.
  — Luke Winkie, Vox, 7 Aug. 2019
• His offense was stuck in the mud after a listless first half on the grandest stage.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Jones shares the harrowing night his father lay listless on the floor in his home.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
• My can was nearly flat, which left what should be a beer with a nice creamy body feeling thin and listless.
  — Markus Haas, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2018
• Deji looked listless through the first two rounds before finding a spark in the third.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
• One day, one of her four children — a baby at the time — felt very hot to the touch, and was listless.
  — Leto Sapunar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• The listless Eryk filled my thoughts all through my mother’s decline.
  — Longreads, 15 June 2018
• This year, the listless Dolphins have a 2-3 record at the bye week.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
• Milwaukee looked listless and out of sorts in the early moments of the game.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
• Stretched on the sidewalk were a half-dozen victims, stunned, listless, in shock, some with oxygen masks.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The touchdown gave Auburn life after a listless start to the second half.
  — Josh Bean | [email protected], al, 31 Aug. 2019
• Rosa tells him to alert the hospital staff that their mother is in a wheelchair, sick and listless.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The madness of mid-March arrived, and some Spurs fans grew listless.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2022
• Pageau smashed home his second goal late in the third to finish off a listless Flyers team.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• This sense of being listless without Kane is nothing new.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Game 6 was so confounding because the Celtics just looked listless from the start.
  — The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 17 May 2025
• The Dolly Llama is the spot to take your listless kids this summer.
  — Dallas News, 14 June 2022
• One was a listless, underweight female goat with no appetite.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 23 Dec. 2025
• After midnight on a listless Friday on Lex, the old crone gave the nod.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• The off-white walls of this bygone home for the Warriors remain listless and barren.
  — Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
• But instead, Baltimore was left listless on the mound and at the plate for a second straight loss.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2022