He lingered in the classroom after school was over.
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Lingered
//ˈlɪŋɡɚd//
Synonyms for "lingered" (127 found)
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The shock of her father's death lingered on and she didn't feel like going out at all.
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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.
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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.
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