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Six example sentences with lassitude, each labelled with its topic.
Weeks after the fever cleared, the patient still described a lassitude that made one flight of stairs feel like a mountain trail.
Medicine
August heat brings a lassitude to the marsh, when the herons stand unmoving for hours and even the dragonflies stay in the reeds.
Environment
Chroniclers describe the lassitude of the court in its last decade, when petitions sat unanswered and no new building was begun.
History
The counselor distinguished ordinary tiredness from the lassitude that had kept the student from opening a book for weeks.
Psychology
Three weeks of overtraining produced a heavy lassitude, and the runner needed a full rest week before the spring came back.
Fitness
Jet lag brought a lassitude that lasted three days, and we spent the first afternoon in Tokyo asleep on a park bench.
Travel
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