lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

"Come in!" said the changed voice that had wrought upon Phoebe's womanly compassion, as Jessie awaited the warrant to enter the sick-room—a faint-hearted lingerer upon the threshold.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

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

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