Lingered in example sentence

"And the old Grenadiers, too, who were not so active as they used to be, they could not keep up; and yet if they lingered the peasants would catch them and crucify them to the barn doors with their feet up and a fire under their heads, which was a pity for these fine old soldiers.

More example sentences with word lingered

So when the echo of the gunshots had lingered, it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing.

Looking at these photographs today brings back the smell of smoke that lingered on my clothes when I went home to my family at night.

I asked Jesus to fix me, and when he did not answer I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste.

But if Death lingered at the foot of the bed, he’d already claimed the patient as his own— and the doctor could do nothing for them.

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