lingers

Example Sentences

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If conflict lingers through the summer, it could add a full percentage point to inflation this year, according to analysts at LPL Financial.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

If the conflict lingers, however, that could change, he said.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

As the memory of it washes back over you, “Omaha” lingers, like a devastating short story — devastating because it’s about a pained father for whom the road ahead only seems to get narrower.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Hughes' original passion, sport and fitness, still lingers.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Waves thunder in the distance, and although the ocean’s cadence has always been comforting to me, the silence that lingers in between each crashing wave now strikes me as odd.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman