Example sentences for: lingers

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

  • They would rise before dawn--if the sun, which lingers obscenely above the horizon during the summer nights--would only set.

  • Still, some whining lingers.

  • Guests and fish after three days start to stink , or even An unwelcome guest lingers like the British Empire .

  • But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.

  • When the camera lingers on Mrs. Dalloway's daughter, Elizabeth (Katie Carr), as she sits on the top of a double-decker bus, the girl's face is blank and the moment empty of meaning.


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