lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter
Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade— Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly.
From Songs of Travel by Stevenson, Robert Louis
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
“Master Constable” addressed the lingerer: “Disperge,”—a difficult operation for an individual,—“disperge, I say; we can’t have no burlash here!”
From Old New England Traits by Lunt, George
