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
One, two, three days went by, and still Mr. Lyon was a lingerer at Woodbine Lodge; and during most of that time he was alone and in earnest conference with Mr. Markland.
From The Good Time Coming by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Sir Lewis Morris
