lingeringly
Example Sentences
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When these displaced, grief-laden men lingeringly intersect late in the novel, nothing really changes in terms of the plot but everything changes in terms of the book’s spiritual design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
I'd like to have a relationship with his child, and for my children to know their cousin, but contact with my brother is always deeply, lingeringly awful.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Notably, the record’s tendency to look at women – lingeringly, lovingly – extended to Marling herself.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2017
The second group, lingeringly cheesed off by the network’s 2009 move to crowd drama out of primetime in favor of Jay Leno, need convincing that NBC is committed to attempting classy, smart work for adults.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2012
He takes his hand away, lazily almost, lingeringly, this is not the last word as far as he’s concerned.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
