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)

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

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

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

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