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Example sentences for: lingered

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Approval had lingered between 35 percent and 45 percent, with little help from government leaders.
A brief, overheated boom was followed by a slump that lingered for most of a decade.
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.
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.