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Sentence count:143+3Posted:2017-02-05Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: dawdledelaydillydallylagloiterremainstaytarrywaitSimilar words: singerfingerharbingerangerdangerhungerlongerno longerMeaning: ['lɪŋgə(r)]  v. 1. remain present although waning or gradually dying 2. be about 3. leave slowly and hesitantly 4. take one's time; proceed slowly 5. move to and fro. 
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61. Stephen felt the softness of the chair beneath him and allowed his hand to linger on the brocade.
62. But doubts are bound to linger and further clarifications are required to dispel them.
63. Two hours is ample time, but walkers with interests in botany, geology or archaeology will be sorely tempted to linger.
64. Each of these station types had its own distinctive character and ambience. Let us linger a while at some of them.
65. It usually takes several days for the pain to subside, although it can linger for weeks.
66. I don't want to linger on in hospital with tubes and drugs and all that messy business.
67. This question continued to linger in our midst and shroud our lives in a ravenous expanse with no discernible seams or edges.
68. He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds, during which his bulk seems to swell in the room.
69. First, old Cold War-era arms control issues linger on, needing to be negotiated away.
70. Looking back on college, academic involvements, including debating, linger most in my mind.
71. Whenever they passed into the market-making room they would linger to gossip and exchange banter with clerks and market-makers.
72. Still, doubts linger that the program will be as successful as its backers claim.
73. The after-effects of a severe bout of glandular fever were beginning to linger on far too long for Virginia's liking.
74. None the less, a few crimes linger in the public mind.
75. He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while, but it was too cold to linger long.
76. The poets did not care to linger in that gloom-hidden abode.
77. Some peanuts, judiciously scattered, may persuade them to linger for a while more.
78. Strange how childhood impressions linger, often remaining more pervasive than the experiences of later life.
79. These costs linger like radioactive fallout,(www.Sentencedict.com) contaminating core beliefs and inspiring additional replicative actions that demand further minimization.
80. They would linger at the jamb of the door.
81. Democratic ads linger over the graves of American soldiers.
82. His last words still linger in our ears.
83. Days in summer, Basil , are apt to linger.
84. The endorphins linger , delightfully , for hours afterwards.
85. Wherefore should we linger upon it now?
86. Did the ghost of that grand passion linger in some corner of his heart?
87. I stared at this old homes to see if they and linger over the sky.
88. Whereas gasoline fumes linger close to the ground before dispersing.
89. Not only did the smoke linger over all things enlightened and libidinal .
90. Notes of musk, sandalwood and cedarwood - Combine to create the soft base notes. Tend to linger on the skin longer than the other notes.
More similar words: singerfingerharbingerangerdangerhungerlongerno longerin dangerany longerendangerdangerouspassengermudslingingout of dangerendangeredhingetingecringefringeimpingesyringeinfringestaggeringslingclingflingingenuousingeniousin general
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