lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019
Should I say rather that one after one the singing birds flitted from the strings, those telegraph wires betwixt the seen and the unseen, and now the last lingerer was gone?
From There & Back by MacDonald, George
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
Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade— Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly.
From Songs of Travel by Stevenson, Robert Louis
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
