lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

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

Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade— Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly. 

From Songs of Travel by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"Come in!" said the changed voice that had wrought upon Phoebe's womanly compassion, as Jessie awaited the warrant to enter the sick-room—a faint-hearted lingerer upon the threshold.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter