- present tense form of linger (3rd person singular).
lingers
Example Sentences
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The movie people arrived last, after the lungers and the farmers, drawn to that serene daylight and a varied landscape that could double for Wyoming or Arabia or a desert island.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022
After the storm, David had insisted the windows must be opened again,—that was the first law of lungers and chasers.
From Sunny Slopes by Hueston, Ethel
He hath an army of women, smiters with swords and lungers with lances, five-and-twenty thousand in number, each of whom, whenas she mounteth steed and donneth battle-gear, eveneth a thousand knights of the bravest.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Get it out of your head that lungers always die—they don’t.
From Across the Mesa by Pitz, Henry Clarence
Dry as a bone, the weather was most of the year; hot—the lungers liked it hot and dry, he knew.
From Starr, of the Desert by Bower, B. M.
