Lingered

He lingered in the classroom after school was over.

The shock of her father's death lingered on and she didn't feel like going out at all.

They lurked and lingered for a long time, but survived in little things; for, Nature, far above the evil passions of men, soon recovered Her serenity, and smiled upon the guilty battle-ground as she had done before, when it was innocent.

The orchard, with its great sweeping boughs that bent to the ground with fruit, proved so delightful that the little girls spent most of the afternoon in it, sitting in a grassy corner where the frost had spared the green and the mellow autumn sunshine lingered warmly, eating apples and talking as hard as they could.

For some months Jefferson Hope lingered among the mountains, leading a strange, wild life, and nursing in his heart the fierce desire for vengeance which possessed him.

Sami lingered for a few hours before eventually dying at the hospital.

And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.

I lingered.

We lingered.

We lingered to look at the beautiful scenery.