Listless has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I feel listless and have a throbbing headache. | |
| 2. | According to David Frum, the US Republican Party staged a convention which was their most listless and most joyless in twenty years, but Elizabeth Warren characterized that convention as the nastiest and most divisive in half a century. | |
| 3. | How gaily the kids skip and play, whilst I sink into listless repose! | |
| 4. | Holmes sat silently, with his head thrown back and his eyes closed, in an attitude which might seem listless to a stranger, but which I knew betokened the most intense self-absorption. | |
| 5. | The old woman was on her accustomed seat beneath the weeping birch, basking, with the listless enjoyment of age and infirmity, in the beams of the autumn sun. |