Example sentences for: lingered

How can you use “lingered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It lingered into the 1950s when Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn gave it a whirl, but it's really gone now.

  • I wandered for two hours, sampling a ceviche-like fish salad, spiked with lime, cilantro, and hot sauce; tamales coated in a green mole sauce that tasted differently with every second it lingered on my tongue; and for dessert, golden empanadas filled with creamy rice pudding.

  • Jacques Rapoport led the search for something "that was sweet rather than violent, that lingered for two weeks, and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered up."

  • If Gaddis wants to blame Stalin and authoritarian rule for the Cold War, he must explain why the confrontation lingered on so long after the old brute's death in 1953.

  • It was like an embarrassing relative sent off to the country whose presence lingered nonetheless.


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