lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

Should I say rather that one after one the singing birds flitted from the strings, those telegraph wires betwixt the seen and the unseen, and now the last lingerer was gone?

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

“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

This poor hesitating lingerer, too much at home in the city of destruction to get out of it even to save his life, has plenty of brothers to-day.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander