Preposition: on

• shelf: All too often the results of this research lies languishing on the shelves of a university library, unavailable to the world at large.

• benefit: The unemployed are encouraged to languish on benefits blaming others for their fate.

Preposition: at

• bottom: Britain is in the middle of the European child poverty league table, not languishing at the bottom.

• foot: We currently languish at the foot of the national recycling league 9th from bottom out of 393 local authorities.

• end: He is not the only top driver to be languishing at the wrong end of the grid.

Adjective complement

• unread: Many research findings languish unread having minimal impact on practice.

Modifying Another Word

• currently: Currently languishing at the bottom of the premier league they could do with some cheering up.

• alone: Eventually someone appeared and jostled us toward poor old Doris, a frail woman languishing alone in a side room.

• still: The polls show them still languishing far behind Labor.

• there: You are very likely to find the password message languishing there.

• now: They are now languishing in Guantanamo at the whim of the US government.

• then: The engine then languished in the open air, slowly deteriorating until under cover storage was provided about 15 years later.

Preposition: in

• obscurity: Only four of the tracks were released contemporaneously, leaving the other twelve to languish in acetate obscurity for the ensuing 45 years.

• jail: Many were tortured by the dreaded secret police, languished in jail or were executed.

• vault: In recent years, two items have appeared on the illicit market which confirm the existence of worthy material languishing in the vaults.

• prison: After ten years languishing in prison he's finally been released.

• shadow: Yet still we languish in the shadows of the ' real ' professions.

• camp: Meanwhile, in India, there are thousands of people languishing in camps in Tamil Nadu.

Preposition: for

• year: Chiswick Park is being built on an old bus station site which has languished for years.

Preposition: near

• foot: Languishing near the foot of the Third Division, gates have dwindled from 11,000 to less than 2,000.