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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.
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.
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.
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.
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."