linger

Example Sentences

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"Knots pass through quickly, just like a quick bump, whereas plectonemes linger and create extended signals. This offers a path to richer, more nuanced readouts of DNA organization, genomic integrity, and possibly damage."

From Science Daily

Light rain is likely Tuesday night into Wednesday, Schoenfeld said, with lingering rain chances through the end of the week.

From Los Angeles Times

If we linger here with a pen and paper — just for fun — and begin to take these soups apart, something interesting happens.

From Salon

NBC’s camera lingering too long on some guy in the nosebleeds wearing a Cleveland Browns jersey.

From The Wall Street Journal

For him, it was the visit he didn't make that lingers in the memory.

From BBC