Sentence for lingering | Use lingering in a sentence

A sentence for the word lingering. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lingering in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lingering.

  • For Blink was lingering in a gateway. (8)
  • Mr. Wagge took it in a lingering manner. (8)
  • And that hand of hers lingering in the air. (8)
  • The conductor, lingering a moment, goes out. (9)
  • The lingering raindrops pattered down on the roof. (8)
  • But she recurred to it with a lingering compunction. (9)
  • We have a solemn enjoyable way of lingering on a case. (2)
  • Lingering waves of sweetness and regret flooded his soul. (8)
  • Lavender, with a lingering look at his devoted housekeeper. (8)
  • How can I tell him that I was lingering to bear a bride to the altar? (10)
  • I suppose the jests of the vineyard watchmen are still lingering in your heads. (5)
  • That being absent, she handed back the letter, her eyes lingering on the signature. (10)
  • Mr. Triscoe had got his trunk open, and Burnamy had no longer an excuse for lingering. (9)
  • The leaves browned slowly, lingering with the sun and summer-like warmth of the nights. (8)
  • Mrs. Lapham faltered between her lingering resentment and the appeals of her flattered vanity. (9)
  • Palmet was guilty of staring at her, and of lingering behind the others for a last look at her. (10)
  • She drew her head out of the room, stepping back a pace, and lingering a moment at the threshold. (9)
  • Walls and ceilings were knocked away here and there, and a lingering odor of powder smoke was everywhere. (1)
  • In the large bed the little figure, white and wasted with the lingering fever of his disease, lay peacefully. (13)
  • Arabella gazed at him with distressful eagerness, as one who believes in the lingering of a vestige of candour. (10)
  • With a lingering look at his brother, who has sat down sullenly at the writing table, he goes out into the hall. (8)
  • And there stirred far down within him the ghost of warmth, as from sparks lingering beneath a mound of flaky ash. (8)
  • Lingering long in his company, the summer twilight stole upon us before we knew it, and warned us to seek a camp. (20)
  • It was black and unstirring in there now, very different from the lingering, bird-befriended brightness of six hours ago! (8)
  • A few of the musicians were still lingering over the wine which the travelling merchants and artisans had ordered for them. (5)
  • He found a lingering quality of pure Americanism in the region, and he said the very bells called to worship in a nasal tone. (9)
  • The court of the castle was reached, and he turned aside, lingering to see whether he could get a view of the lighted steps. (10)
  • She had never spoken in quite that voice, had never before made that lingering gesture or looked back at him as she drove away. (8)
  • Diana enjoyed her walk beneath the lingering brown-red of the frosty November sunset, with the scent of sand-earth strong in the air. (10)

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