Lingered in example sentence

He lingered behind, until Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass had disappeared, and then fervently clenched Mr. Pickwick's hand, with an expression of face in which deep and mighty resolve was fearfully blended with the very concentrated essence of gloom.

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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