lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
One, two, three days went by, and still Mr. Lyon was a lingerer at Woodbine Lodge; and during most of that time he was alone and in earnest conference with Mr. Markland.
From The Good Time Coming by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
“Master Constable” addressed the lingerer: “Disperge,”—a difficult operation for an individual,—“disperge, I say; we can’t have no burlash here!”
From Old New England Traits by George Lunt
