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 Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
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
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 Joseph Cottle
"Come in!" said the changed voice that had wrought upon Phoebe's womanly compassion, as Jessie awaited the warrant to enter the sick-room—a faint-hearted lingerer upon the threshold.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
