Example sentences for: lingering

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

  • The Japanese cinema industry is in lingering recession, with growing numbers of people preferring to watch videos at home.

  • If it is more than a passing acquaintance, you might want to risk the person's embarrassment in order to be helpful, with a remark something like "I hope you don't take offense, but I feel sure you would want to know that, somehow, your breath has turned sour," or "your lunch is lingering," or whatever you are comfortable saying.

  • Newsweek 's cover story is darker, emphasizing the trial's lingering stink in the White House and Congress.

  • Other sights worth lingering over in the old inner city include the 14th-century Panmen Gate, where a magnificent arched bridge crosses a canal linking Suzhou to the Grand Canal.

  • Hovering behind this debate, of course, was the lingering memory of the 1972 campaign, when Missouri Sen.


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