lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019
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)
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
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
