Sentences with lingered
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L l - We lingered awhile after the party.
- She lingered a few months after the heart attack. Such practices still linger among the older natives.
- He lingered for eight days after being shot.
- Joel, who was only nine months old at the time of the fires, got sick with fever and serious eczema which lingered for months.
- To linger over the beauty of a painting.
- To linger in discharging one's duties.
- It had lingered and suffered for a long time but finally, after a wretched public decline, the tree died.
- After the game, Black and Darryl White lingered longest on the ground, stopping to share the triumph with friends and family.
- We lingered away the whole summer at the beach.