lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

An idle lingerer on the wayside's road, He gathers up his work and yawns away; A little longer, ere the tiresome load Shall be reduced to ashes or to clay.

From Violets and Other Tales by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

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 Maclaren, Alexander

Thus baffled and friendless, I was about to depart, and stood a fearful lingerer on the isle which I had so dearly loved—when tidings were brought me of your approach.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter