Example sentences for: lingers

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

  • 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.

  • The memory of its fierce medieval history lingers still, the tales of family feuds that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ended only with the 14th-century ascendancy of the tough Scalageri dynasty, in turn conquered by Venice in 1405.

  • It lingers sourly but not in quite the ways anyone expected.

  • Still, some whining lingers.

  • Although the long overdue reforms came, the slang lingers on.


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