Example sentences for: lingers

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

  • The punk aesthetic lingers in Kureishi: The more hopeless the movie gets, the more upbeat it feels.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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