lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

Thou couldst not keep Thy youth as now, if always on the breast Of love too late a lingerer thou hadst known Possession sate thee.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter

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)

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

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