lingerer

Example Sentences

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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

Thou couldst not keep Thy youth as now, if always on the breast Of love too late a lingerer thou hadst known Possession sate thee.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

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 Howells, William Dean

“Master Constable” addressed the lingerer: “Disperge,”—a difficult operation for an individual,—“disperge, I say; we can’t have no burlash here!”

From Old New England Traits by Lunt, George

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