Sentence examples for he lingered there from inspiring English sources

They fell in love, and he lingered there until he was sharply reminded by Mercury that Rome was his goal.

An official ordered Pappas back to the track, and he lingered there as the meet went on.

He lingered there all day long like a stray monkey, and by dusk he had dismantled all the aluminum roofing sheets that had once sheltered him and his business.

He stands, unseen, and observes her as she goes about her life; even when she moves out, he lingers there, watching other inhabitants come and go, and stretches of history roll by.

But once he arrives in France where the sun is brighter, the grapes tastier and the women more pliable, ooh la la! Before the property can be sold, it needs repairs, especially the tennis court, and he lingers there and begins to rediscover the simple pleasures of those halcyon childhood summers.

Instead, they lingered there for thousands of years, their genes acquiring increasingly distinctive variations.

They were handsome, lean and mannish-looking -- yet something suggestive of the little boy he had once been lingered there.

After being arrested by the Gestapo, he escaped from prison, sneaked across the Czech border and lingered there until he could secure papers for America.

When he released them, one landed halfway up my thigh, and lingered there.

But more importantly, something about his presence and the way he treated me made my past and the jerks who lingered there seem strangely insignificant.

Men who lingered there too long without the ransom being paid were taken away and killed, he said.