lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019
At length the last lingerer passed the two by the door, and Brown, approaching, spoke to them.
From The Brown Study by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
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
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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)
