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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:

Approval had lingered between 35 percent and 45 percent, with little help from government leaders.
I assume you leave the house when you conduct these little trials, but there is always the chance that someone else may have lingered.
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."
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.
Reporters described the "outpouring" of emotion at the makeshift shrine, mentioning the address over and over again: 20 N. Moore St., 20 N. Moore St. The accompanying videotape used close-up shots and slow pans of the not-entirely cluttered stoop; the camera lingered over the flickering flames of memorial candles and the droplets of water clinging to the flower petals.