English example sentences with "lingering"

What are you lingering for? Hurry up and go.
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The smell of last night's dinner was still lingering in the kitchen.
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Ever drifting down the stream — Lingering in the golden gleam — Life, what is it but a dream?
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Tell a story which illustrates perfectly your power sound bite and which will leave a lingering memory for the audience to think about.
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"But linger thou, nor count thy lingering vain, / though comrades chide, and breezes woo the fleet. / Approach the prophetess; with prayer unchain / her voice to speak."
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One evening at sunset, Jane Andrews, Gilbert Blythe, and Anne Shirley were lingering by a fence in the shadow of gently swaying spruce boughs.
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The coronavirus is not lingering in the air.
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His furrowed brow suggested lingering doubts.
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I'm not having as much fun as I should when I procrastinate, because I have that lingering guilt in the back of my head of knowing that what I'm doing is wrong.
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A woman’s wedding day is the one time she can be the center of attention without any lingering feelings of guilt, according to Jellison.
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Skura is lingering around Yanni.
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He's lingering.
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It is the 22nd of March of 2015. As I enter the Lulu Island pizzeria, Adil the Kazakh is sitting at a table, there he quietly reading a Russian fiction novel. I buy a diet cola and sit with him. I try to pronounce the Russian title. He approves of my pronunciation. I say that Russian letters look wide and masculine. He mentions that he has read Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood in Russian translation from Japanese. I mention another famous writer, Yukio Mishima. Sasha the Ukrainian enters. We all start talking about the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. People were more positive then than now, in the lingering AIDS era. People are more negative now. Then we start talking about all sorts of drugs. Sasha's girlfriend, 58, a Canadian, smokes marijuana frequently. Marijuana is prevalent today. I think that it affects the mind.
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The study by the Australian National University's Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research blames deep-seated racism and the lingering consequences of European colonization in 1788.
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I clear my lungs of the smoke lingering inside, and turn my eyes to a park shrouded in the dark.
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As someone with a keen eye to lingering class and race issues, Kibuuka launched into banter about political rallies in his adopted homeland.
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In the absolute serenity of his beatitude he fell asleep, with one hand still lazily clutching his beard, and the other still lingering lovingly near the great tumbler.
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Why are we lingering?
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After unloading the dishwasher, check for any lingering food scraps or debris inside.
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"It is typical of the early Biedermeier, still showing the lingering influence of the French empire, encrusted with ornamentation and detail," noted Laurie Winters.

I still have a cough lingering after a chest cold.