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)
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)
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter
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
