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 arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"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 Marion Harland
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 George MacDonald
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
