Sentences with linger
lin·ger
L l - The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room. [VERB adverb/preposition]
- Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight. [VERB adverb/preposition]
- With Apartheid still linger in the minds and hearts of its people.
- Commercial Real Estate Investors have become almost immune to the problems that linger in the real estate market.
- lingering at the door
- We lingered awhile after the party.
- They linger on desks and chairs and creep along the floors.
- She lingered a few months after the heart attack. Such practices still linger among the older natives.
- To linger over the beauty of a painting.
- To linger in discharging one's duties.
- We lingered away the whole summer at the beach.