lingerer

Examples of lingered

lingered

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Yet the compassion and good humor with which it occurred lingered long past the event.
Like non-war neurasthenia, wartime cases of psychological disturbance lingered because of weak will or a tendency to morbid introspection.
The rest - five of the eight - laboured, lingered, or begged.
The implications for intercultural dialogue on moral perspectives will be clear to readers from both sides and should not be lingered on.
Elements of the tradition of personal charity, hospitality, and neighbourliness still lingered on into the eighteenth century in a variety of ways.
Class-based rhetoric lingered on during the early 1970s.
In the back of my mind always lingered the temptation to succumb to easy dismissals.
He has caught the fever which, he was warned, lingered in the night air.
But the painful process lingered on because different voices were heard outside the official diplomatic channels.
Though not literally, but in some measure it lingered on thereafter.
This was markedly so early on, but traces lingered later.
Smoking released a fog-like cloud that arose, lingered in different shapes and disappeared like a ghost.
Yet often, earlier representations unrelated to that evolution lingered due to political motives and despite the rise of new racial categories.
What often happened in such cases was that the mental map lingered on as a 'folkmemory' of belonging.
He lingered almost two weeks before dying.
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