Sentence examples for had been lingering from inspiring English sources

"The hour record had been lingering.

Before its deployment on Long Island, the copy had been lingering in Mr. Scheerer's office.

"It had been lingering for years," Jeff Neal, a spokesman for Governor Carcieri, said.

Five days later, a federal judge responded to Wallace's habeas petition, which had been lingering in the courts for years.

Neighbors said Mr. Shobey had been lingering by a trash chute before approaching the woman, who was carrying groceries.

"The court will permit no further 'legal theory morphs' in this case," the judge said, noting that the charges against Mr. Schiff had been lingering for three years.

There was no question; this has been lingering since that night.

They can give fresh life to old jackets that have been lingering in dry-cleaner bags.

Proposals for a GST, a form of sales tax, have been lingering for years.

It has also prompted a question that has been lingering for a month.

Since 1835 three vellum-bound books with smudged handwritten pages have been lingering on shelves at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.