Lingered in example sentence

I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating the front and back rooms of the third storey: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard's castle.

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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