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 Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
At length the last lingerer passed the two by the door, and Brown, approaching, spoke to them.
From The Brown Study by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
A storm came, and strewed the beach with kelp, and blew over half the bath-houses; and then the hardiest lingerer ceased to talk of staying through October.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells
This poor hesitating lingerer, too much at home in the city of destruction to get out of it even to save his life, has plenty of brothers to-day.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
