Example sentences for: lingers

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

  • Still, some whining lingers.

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

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

  • 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.


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