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lethargic - use in sentences
Preposition: over
- roadmap: However, surely nobody expects Sony to be lethargic over a forward thinking roadmap for the PSP?
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: It is a factor that makes people lethargic and mentally confused, with an inability to concentrate and short-term memory loss.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: I flop on the bed whilst the others explore the pool, still feeling rather lethargic.
- extremely: He had stopped eating and had become extremely lethargic.
- too: The lad looked too lethargic to get into trouble.
- very: All the cats are very lethargic, even the cubs.
- so: Jerome was very poor, he looked so lethargic.
- somewhat: As I was biking home one evening after work I caught up with Bill who seemed to be somewhat lethargic.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: I flop on the bed whilst the others explore the pool, still feeling rather lethargic.
- seem: Although depressed people may seem lethargic, samples of their blood show a raised level of stress hormones such as cortisol and noradrenaline.
- become: He becomes lethargic; nothing except his longing interests him.
- look: The lad looked too lethargic to get into trouble.
- appear: She was not dehydrated and did not appear lethargic.
- get: I wanted to have a day that wasn't spent hiding under a duvet getting lethargic.
Modifies a noun
- state: Economic growth in the third quarter stood at just 0.1 % reflecting the lethargic state of the economy.
- performance: This surely accounted for some of it's lethargic performance.
- pace: What's equally astonishing is the lethargic pace at which people deploy the patches that can prevent infection in the first place.
- attitude: Karin is starting to act very strange; what's with her enormous appetite and sudden lethargic attitude?
- fish: Diagnosis The visible signs of the disease are lethargic fish showing occasional bouts of abnormally frenzied activity that usually precedes death.
- today: With the blazing heat all the cats were very lethargic today, even the cubs.
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