Sentence examples for let it linger from inspiring English sources

You can't let it linger too much.

Let it linger on your palate.

Don't let it linger, and you don't need 25 e-mails back and forth.

"And when I said it, I gently touched his arm and let it linger".

"I let it linger," she said of her first-round frustration.

You draw a little up the stem, let it linger in your mouth, then gently let it go.

Traditional beliefs about the impurity of menstrual blood, and the perceived health risks of letting it linger in the body, make tampons an unpopular choice with many women.

He swallowed without letting it linger in his mouth; he still didn't dare feel with his tongue where the teeth had been.

His voice embraces operatic drama; he has a sustained baritone croon suffused with tragic, hollow-eyed despair and bitter gallows humor, and he's not shy about letting it linger unaccompanied.

Mild and fragrant, it was probably the best whisky I've ever drunk, though it's also true that, with Paterson looking on, I had never tasted whisky so carefully, letting it linger on my tongue, rolling it underneath, holding it in my mouth and then exhaling deeply.

"I thought it was best that instead of letting it linger and rumors, just to have it right there as soon as possible," he told reporters this week.