LINGERING in a Sentence
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193 example sentences for LINGERING, such as:
1. The girl lingered by the lake until it was dark.
2. The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room.
3. Unfortunately the tax will linger on until April.
4. The media frenzy is over, but the problem lingers on.
5. She lingered after the concert, hoping to meet the star.
2. The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room.
3. Unfortunately the tax will linger on until April.
4. The media frenzy is over, but the problem lingers on.
5. She lingered after the concert, hoping to meet the star.
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Meanings and Examples of LINGERING
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lingering
n. the act of tarrying
Classic Sentence: (179 in 12 pages)
1 She tore herself betimes from the lingering enjoyment of her breakfast-tray, rang to have her grey gown laid out, and despatched her maid to borrow a prayer-book from Mrs. Trenor.
2 On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.
3 Both of these she found on the terrace, where only a few men were lingering over cigarettes and liqueur, while scattered couples strolled across the lawn to the autumn-tinted borders of the flower-garden.
4 She saw, too, in the same uncompromising light, the train of consequences resulting from that failure; and these became clearer to her with every day of her weary lingering in town.
5 Lily had thus formed, in the tumult of her surroundings, a little nucleus of friendly relations which mitigated the crudeness of her course in lingering with the Gormers after their return.
6 Lily, lingering for a moment on the corner, looked out on the afternoon spectacle of Fifth Avenue.
7 She was still in a state of highly-wrought impressionability, and every hint of the past sent a lingering tremor along her nerves.
8 Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
9 But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.
10 He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night.
11 It made him irrevocably a family man; it killed the last lingering impulse that he might have had to go out in the evenings and sit and talk with the men in the saloons.
12 On the other hand, the scout was obscure; because from the lingering pride of color, he rather affected the cold and artificial manner which characterizes all classes of Anglo-Americans when unexcited.
13 Throwing a last and lingering glance at the distant canoes, he laid aside his rifle, and, relieving the wearied Duncan, resumed the paddle, which he wielded with sinews that never tired.
14 They paused to permit the longing and lingering gaze of the sturdy woodsman, and when it was ended, the body was enveloped, never to be unclosed again.
15 We were often in the field from the first approach of day till its last lingering ray had left us; and at saving-fodder time, midnight often caught us in the field binding blades.
Example Sentence:
1 Previous efforts at establishing a framework for joint action foundered on the rocks of lingering suspicion and genuine differences over issues like the crisis in the Balkans.
2 These figures kill off any lingering hopes of an early economic recovery.
3 After the play had finished, we lingered for a while in the bar hoping to catch sight of the actors.
4 The girl lingered by the lake until it was dark.
5 The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room.
6 The mortally wounded soldier lingered on for a few days until at last he died.
7 She lingered after the concert, hoping to meet the star.
8 Perhaps the glassy stare had lingered in his eyes, for Scales looked at him queerly.
9 All the other guests had gone home, but Cage lingered around as if she wanted to talk to me.
10 In the capacious rotunda of the railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train.
11 That cultural tendencies linger in hereditary religious traditions.
12 India is anxious to avoid inflaming tensions with China, which linger from a 1962 border war.
13 Unfortunately the tax will linger on until April.
14 The media frenzy is over, but the problem lingers on.