lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

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 Cottle, Joseph

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

Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter

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 Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore