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Example sentences for: lingered

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

Even while poverty lingered from the Great Depression, World War II caused continued hardship on the island because of its isolation in a dangerous sea.
I assume you leave the house when you conduct these little trials, but there is always the chance that someone else may have lingered.
Or Don Delillo's Underworld , which I personally couldn't stand but which spoke truth to many and lingered on the bestseller list for weeks.
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.
He lingered on it, slowed it down, fastened on blood-spurting bodies as they hurtled through the air--and ended up making it lyrical, aestheticizing it, distancing it.