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Sentence Examples Sounds waft by or linger barely long enough to register as rhythmic or melodic phrases. Jane accepts Edward Rochester's hand in marriage, they linger in the garden for a few more moments, kissing. Sleep is likely to be fitful while you linger in the delicious sensual afterglow. Unhappy endings linger in your mind, leaving an ache in your heart and a problem to resolve. It always embarrassed me when a guest would linger anticipating an invitation to a meal and finally, awkwardly, leave unfed. These are not sensations that are normally aestheticized, or on which viewers would ordinarily linger. Why linger with a lender's standard variable rate when you can borrow more cheaply with a bit of effort? Greg Edmonson's fractured landscapes show traces of memory that linger as layers within the spaces of our mind. Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May. The cost of the debt will linger on long after the World Cup has come and gone. The street is ordinary and the block of flats that the camera chooses to linger over is plain and unremarkable. However be aware of cornices and unstable snow wreaths that linger long into summer. Rigid chairs and bland decor did not encourage us to linger over coffee, mugged or otherwise. In November, away from our yards, along our coasts, only yellowlegs linger. The images conjured from her words linger long after the last page has been turned. All that atmosphere means not to linger over the excellent coffee would be churlish. We all have certain silly tunes that linger in our memory but defy identification. It's jarring and offensive and leaves one with nothing but repulsive images that linger on afterwards. And at winter dusk, sky and snow are bathed in delicate colours which linger for hours. In those long lightsome Irish summer evenings when the sun doesn't sink until after ten o'clock, the family would linger onboard at the mooring. Show More Sentences As one magical day follows another, the sun seems to linger longer over the yard arm. A few will linger sourly on the back benches, living with their grudges while adding to their parliamentary pensions. Women, children and an occasional man linger in doorways to catch the elusive breeze. We never have a scene linger beyond what is necessary to get the point across. You'll be welcome to linger as long as you like over brunch, lunch or dinner and time in between. Instead, they linger in the field of vision on a more or less equal footing with the verdure they border. There are several sequences in the film that abandon voice-overs and linger on the natural beauty of the landscape. To finish up, there are lots of intriguing coffee concoctions and fresh tisanes that will make you want to linger longer. The odor of failure and confusion linger over the Duchy like the smell of rotting flesh. During the first ten days of July the lodge is surrounded by male steinbocks, that linger for a few days before seeking cooler habitats. My eye caught a certain dark haired boy, tall, walking across the quad and I let my eyes linger traitorously on him. And eerie images linger in the minds and memories, making picture editing a challenging task. We were allowed to linger over coffee and admire the cypress trees and palmettos in the Sipsey swamp area between Tuscaloosa and Meridian. The obtaining situation and the open terrain were factors that did not let paratroopers linger for long in those areas. Fans of bibliographies will no doubt linger over page 5 of the guidebook which lists the 17 bibliographies published by the library itself. The glow from Ann Arbor Pioneer's magical season will linger in Michigan's collective memory for many, many years to come. Those who fancy a late-night meal with their drink can linger until the wee small hours. These female spirits linger near the places where, in life, they met untimely and inauspicious deaths or died childless. Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south. We must linger for a moment more, for just at the top of the bank I see the little bird's foot. Show More Sentences For a taste of beery revelry Australian style, all you have to do is linger until late. The lingering finish allows you to linger over the flavors of the brandy and natural vanilla. Her eyes did not linger long on them, she felt as if they were superficial, fake, plastic. The staff are friendly without being saccharine and are quite willing to let you linger for as long as you please over a cup of coffee. Those words and the hearty gales of laughter that followed will linger in my memory forever. She shut the windows and drew her curtains, letting her gaze linger on the moon for a while. The temptation is to linger over these while neglecting other, more demanding tasks. Customers linger in front of an imported wine counter at a department store on Huaihai Zhonglu. Old Punic legends seemed to linger in the palm-fringed gardens below the palace wall. Not especially in a mood to linger and look around I made a mental note to return in a better frame of mind. In the blazing noonday sun, they linger in bus stops, near temples, hotels, supermarkets and glitzy shops fronts. To suit varying demands, some machines have facilities to dispense a half-cup for customers who prefer to linger over a tea for a long time. The Stationary Front is expected to linger across the island today and gradually dissipate by Monday. The longer we pat ourselves on the back for near misses and moral victories, the longer we linger in unexceptional days. If Missouri loses a great prospect or two because other teams are scouting and making living-room pitches, the impact will linger. Today, with tourists in too much of a rush to stop, much less linger, the number of tables has shrunk to a score or so. I have an aversion to sites which literally give you the bird on the front page, so I didn't linger. Visitors who linger in Madagascar often come to view even ominous setbacks with a Malagasy nonchalance. They would linger together, day after day, inhaling the scents of this faraway world. Health problems need to be attended to and resolved or they can linger for a long time. Show More Sentences Anyway, she was friendly enough and let me linger in the corridor admiring the many rosettes she has won for her chickens. The subtle sweetness and refreshing flavor that linger reminds you of sunshine in liquid form. Many bad habits will linger on and many good ones may disappear but at least the pattern will change a bit. He said it could linger on for a long time unless both sides were willing to make peace. The stereotypes may seem rather weary, but they linger on because, well, because they're still there. We see these types of trials linger on for years as a method to win the case. Ireland will be the richer as the memories linger on, she told the thousands that had gathered. Six decades on, few of the legacies of the war and the independence of its former colony linger on. Mercifully, she could still dream of the expansive Havana avenues, the grand casinos before the revolution, the kempt plazas where she would linger with her lover. And when they linger open for just a few seconds longer than usual, it signals a dreaded delay. For a writer who was a master of reduction, never one to linger on the passing view, this was an unusually effulgent paragraph. The lurches in time and devastating conclusion make it linger unsettlingly in the mind. Boxfish, also known as trunkfish or cowfish, can be found in warm ocean waters, where they linger near the seafloor to hunt for burrowing invertebrates. We linger in the city's few remaining open spaces, desolate and serene as large monolithic apartment blocks overlook the fertile land like greedy developers. The articles linger on the plight of DSK, stuck in his luxury apartment on the posh Place des Vosges. I do not turn to Clarissa in times of duress, but then I am an unregenerate reader, too enthralled by Lovelace's legerdemain to linger over Richardson's edifying sentiments. There was no time to make light of the incident over a glass of Calvados and it was to be another 40 years before she and the family were to linger over a digestif together. Van Meene's camera tends to linger on eccentric but captivating details. If, on the other hand, your store is a homey place where people tend to linger and chat, you'll want to hire someone who fits into this atmosphere. The sweet scent of perfumed roses will linger on your tongue, reminding you that the warmth of summer is on its way, but remember, a little goes a long way. Show More Sentences Most water birds linger along the shallow shoreline of lakes, temporary waters in the inland ecosystems and rivers and very few venture far away from shore. Alliances that frayed or hot products that take longer than expected to reach primetime linger on the minds of everyone who has been at a few of these confabs. In the city's lavish beaux-arts facades and lobbies, farewell smooches and the rustle of tipsy last minute fumblings, still linger faintly in the air today. For example, patients recently detoxified from AODs frequently experience subacute symptoms such as insomnia and anxiety that may linger for a few days or weeks. There was no time to make light of the incident over a glass of Calvados and it was to be another 40 years before he and the family were to linger over a digestif together. At the risk of seeming to fantasticate I confess that the Pope's having built the viaduct made me linger there in a pensive posture and marvel at the march of history. The calm quiet of where I was beckoned me to linger a little longer. Nevertheless, varied combinations of ancient philosophical essentialism and nineteenth-century scientific racialism linger to this day in American folk concepts of race. It's deep, fluid and rich, yet with poise and an exotic melange of fruit, spice and rose petal flavours that linger on and on well after you swallow. She leaned her head back and he let his kisses linger around her neck. Cuomo was asked to show up an hour early, but he evidently did not want to linger at the debate site. It's best if you can stay and linger in this World Heritage Area. I buy a few items and linger over coffee, observing the atmosphere. In France, diners eat in courses and linger over their lengthy meals. Christmas is the time we linger over our meals longer than at any other. You'll soon forget the bill, but the memory of the food will linger on. It may be more than four years ago now, but memories linger on. The film has a power that causes it to linger long in the memory. He resisted the lures of the buckle bunnies who linger late in a rodeo arena, looking to sidle up against the winners. A heart of magnetic musk accord and lingering notes of cistus labdanum linger on the skin for an utterly intoxicating finish. Show More Sentences The burning sensation from wax play should last for a minute, then fade, and not leave actual burn marks that linger for more than a few minutes. His teaching and philosophy greatly impacted people around the world and still linger in today's society. Incense is also used often by people who smoke indoors, and do not want the scent to linger. It can linger in soil for thousands of years and its toxic breakdown products inhibit decay of other substances. The sight of Adrian Chiles either in shorts or sweating profusely on the Copacabana beach is one that, despite best efforts, continues to linger. Mustard gas was persistent and could linger for days, an additional demoralising factor for their opponents. When infected dog droppings are left on the ground the eggs of the roundworms and other parasites can linger in the soil for years. Organisers are also hoping that visitors will linger well into the evening for the beer tent and hog roast. It was prudent therefore for Teach not to linger for too long, although wrecking the ship was a somewhat extreme measure. In some cases the cost can linger long after the pleasure has dissipated. It takes into account... predictions of how long radioactive contaminants will linger in the soil and water near the nuclear facility. Only on college campuses do remnants of libertinism linger. That worries public-health officials, who are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases. He would not rest or linger in it, to avoid meeting a messenger of omens which might be unfavorable, such as a bird, perhaps, or worse, a mousedeer crossing the field. Five days before the end of the 1876 session of Parliament, on 11 August, Disraeli was seen to linger and look around the chamber before departing the Commons. They sent a couple of launches to land to open contact, but being told the king was absent on campaign, Cadamosto did not linger but decided to continue on. Bone Black is as much a dreamscape as a landscape, then, and we move through it on the wheels of hooks's memory, obliged and permitted to linger only where it is arrested. For half a mile a tranquil road stretches between columns of 80-foot-tall slash pines, inviting you to linger and to cherish life at its most serene. Often, a few mothers linger with their young calves well into May. And then you're encouraged to linger further until they're revealed again. Every time I'm there, just like any other visitor, you're encouraged to linger a bit longer seeing the tide come in and how many of them disappear. Show More Sentences What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears. Examples from Classical Literature There is one boy to linger about the forge of an artisan, after the others have gone. Well then, if thou art at Milan or some Lombard town, why do I linger here? But over the inwards of the wedding must I not linger, for much is yet to write. O thirsty eyes that linger magnet-bound On the nest's orphanhood of greenish black! The gallant traitor did not linger for the governor's catchpoll to seize him. But it was not for long that Gloria was allowed to linger even in her own house. Stray squadrons of coho might pass Squitty, but they did not linger in thousands as the blueback did. The venerable Orthoceras and the goniatite linger on through the epoch and into the first period of the succeeding era. It is the only thing I can think of that might make one wish to linger in Stockton-on-Tees. She'll ne'er backward linger, this land of our dads, for she is a dinger at nailing the scads. And the end, though it may linger for a time, will be dismemberment and disaster. The strong body held by paralysis might linger for years, and lotte must earn for him and for all. This order was so pointedly a dismissal that the forewoman had no excuse to linger. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Forgive, most kind reader, the prolix fondness with which I linger on this theme. It is pleasant to linger under these arches and deliver oneself to the pleasures of epigraphy. The reply did not linger, for a simple fact demolished this inartificial fabric. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. Where metheglin was making, he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called Bee-wine. As we have no recognisable remains of the animals and plants of the earliest age, we will not linger over the Archaean rocks. Show More Sentences Elsewhere, it's business as usual with three-minute money-makers that fleetingly please but do not linger longer. These are some of the legends and superstitions which linger amongst us. But I cannot linger upon this at present, tempting although it be. Dworn didn't linger to learn its reaction at spying a looter. It does not linger to corrupt the mind with an unsavoury after-flavour. The strength of the dose would determine whether he were to linger out years, or drop dead in the midst of a breath. You linger for a moment when the primary school has been dismissed. And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. Angie moved slowly toward the door, but Josie inclined to linger. His mission was to administer the consolations of religion to any of the prostrate figures in whom there might yet linger a spark of life. She did not linger there, but with a step that was hurried and agitated, she crossed the distance that divided her cabin from the ruin. When we passed a candy store her footsteps would hesitate and linger. The faults of his first style still linger, but they are chastened. There was even a singular little dignity in it, something that made me release him, yet, when I had slowly risen, linger beside him. We linger too long, no doubt, beside this paltry rivulet of life that flowed through the garden of the Pyncheon House. We must linger a moment on this unfortunate expression of poor Hepzibah's brow. Over which bee-like industry these benefactors of their species linger yet, though office-hours be past, that they may give, for every day, some good account at last. Why linger to add to the number of the victims of our merciless enemies? At supper the men ate like vikings, and the chocolate cake, which I had hoped would linger on until tomorrow in a mutilated condition, disappeared on the second round. We high-school boys used to linger on the playground at the afternoon recess to watch them as they came tripping down the hill along the board sidewalk, two and two. Show More Sentences Many, however, linger only in a metamorphosed or disguised form. As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. A few lawyers' clerks and others who know this suitor by sight linger on the chance of his furnishing some fun and enlivening the dismal weather a little. Ideas can never utterly perish, so these beliefs linger on in our midst, but they do not influence the great mass of the people, and Society has no support but Egoism. A circle is the ideal form for a satellite deck or patio where you can relax over morning coffee, dine at dusk, or linger next to a firepit at night. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of linger? Words that rhyme with linger What is the past tense of linger? What is the adverb for linger? What is the adjective for linger? What is the noun for linger? Translations for linger Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lingcod Lingard lingam Lingala linga Ling Linger lingered lingerer lingerie lingering lingeringly 6-letter Words Starting With l li lin ling linge