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Lingering
"Lingering" in a Sentence (13 examples)
What are you lingering for? Hurry up and go.
The smell of last night's dinner was still lingering in the kitchen.
Ever drifting down the stream — Lingering in the golden gleam — Life, what is it but a dream?
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"But linger thou, nor count thy lingering vain, / though comrades chide, and breezes woo the fleet. / Approach the prophetess; with prayer unchain / her voice to speak."
One evening at sunset, Jane Andrews, Gilbert Blythe, and Anne Shirley were lingering by a fence in the shadow of gently swaying spruce boughs.
The coronavirus is not lingering in the air.
His furrowed brow suggested lingering doubts.
I'm not having as much fun as I should when I procrastinate, because I have that lingering guilt in the back of my head of knowing that what I'm doing is wrong.
A woman’s wedding day is the one time she can be the center of attention without any lingering feelings of guilt, according to Jellison.
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But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.
The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.
Whatever little lingerings may have now and then revived in my mind associated with my poor old face had only revived as belonging to a part of my life that was gone—gone like my infancy or my childhood.
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