lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

One, two, three days went by, and still Mr. Lyon was a lingerer at Woodbine Lodge; and during most of that time he was alone and in earnest conference with Mr. Markland.

From The Good Time Coming by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

A storm came, and strewed the beach with kelp, and blew over half the bath-houses; and then the hardiest lingerer ceased to talk of staying through October.

From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean

“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

At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.

From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)