lingers

A similar interval after Carson’s last show, his ghost still lingers, and not just because of YouTube, where the icon’s estate has curated his clips.

“All of the fear and the anxiety and the threat lingers unattached to anything,” Makari said.

The country has not endured full-fledged war on its soil since its disastrous fight with Iraq in the 1980s, and trauma from that conflict, which claimed tens of thousands of lives, lingers today.

He’s a poison that lingers and lingers, leaving me to feel as if we are all engaged in a death march.

An important sound in the play is a bell that Wygodny taps at regular intervals, often at moments when a line is spoken that lingers awkwardly in the air.