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.

  • 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.

  • For the first two-thirds of the film, Holland barely even lingers on her heroine's features.

  • And what do you think of the amount of time Lewis lingers over Clark's damn boat?

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


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