Sentence examples for linger at the edge from inspiring English sources

He would hope when he woke that the day would be like the dream, that traces of the ease and the colour and the light would linger at the edge of things until night fell again.

Again, Faulkner comes to mind, as in the passages where George recalls his father's encounters in the Maine woods with the Indians who still linger at the edge of this vanishing wilderness.

Several other women connected to Christian and Ryan linger at the edges of the story.

They linger at the edges of the carpeted dancefloor night as symbols of misguided decadence, like burnt out American yachts during the fall of Batista's Cuba.

Iris lingered at the edge of the light.

Violence always lingers at the edge of Yemeni politics.

Larry lingered at the edge of the Teacherage yard, hunched against a tree.

Lingering at the edge of each tale is the sense that knowing the right people might bring the anecdote to life.

My father drove through the small town of Upland searching in the gathering gloom for my sister when he spied her lingering at the edge of one of the multitude of orange groves in our city.

Among the other stereotypes lingering at the edges are some decorative items (Gemma Arterton as Io, Alexa Davalos as Andromeda) whose lack of presence is more lethal than Medusa's gaze.

Although the mood brightened in the fourth and final movement, and the piece ended ecstatically — with the six, in a line, dropping into the splits, bowing their heads and then throwing them back — undercurrents of sadness, isolation, and alienation lingered at the edges of the work from beginning to end.