lingerer
Example Sentences
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
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 George MacDonald
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
