linger

Example Sentences

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Through their court filings, both recount head injuries sustained while sledding and lingering symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times

In Golders Green the smell of smoke still lingers in the air.

From BBC

Idle has for more than a decade been largely estranged from his former collaborators, but said he prefers not to linger on that fact.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Madison” makes the most of that with cinematography that lingers on her face as if it were part of Montana’s sun-kissed natural beauty.

From Salon

But even if the immediate standoff is resolved, the economic shock may linger — a reminder that in modern warfare, the battlefield doesn’t end at the front lines.

From Salon