lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
An idle lingerer on the wayside's road, He gathers up his work and yawns away; A little longer, ere the tiresome load Shall be reduced to ashes or to clay.
From Violets and Other Tales by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
We had sight of George III. in our last chapter, and we shall catch sight of him again from time to time; for he was a persistent lingerer, and a most obstinate liver.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
Thus baffled and friendless, I was about to depart, and stood a fearful lingerer on the isle which I had so dearly loved—when tidings were brought me of your approach.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
