Sentence examples for linger briefly from inspiring English sources

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Phones pressed against ears, white sneakers over stockings, the day is done, but their eyes linger briefly on this man who seems of another time.

She doesn't vomit, but your own gorge may rise when the camera shifts from Beth — who takes a flirty call from her unseen lover, her wedding ring gleaming in the shot — to linger briefly on a jar of shelled peanuts set on the airport bar in front of her.

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While they drifted along the corridor to the elevator, one of the young ladies lingered briefly.

Isabel and Ruben Toledo lingered briefly by a simply set table designed by their students at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

After "Walking on Thin Ice," she lingered briefly in the club's V.I.P. area, ready to start the day.

Alan and I lingered briefly on top of Ventoux, I, at least, still hoping for an epiphany that never quite came.

He lingered briefly over some Bakelite clocks and parasol handles in his home before heading into what he calls a "crazy Moorish Revival fretwork room" with wood carvings.

In the United States an older generation of humorists somewhat of the upper-class Punch style lingered briefly after World War I.

As Felzmann lingered briefly on each image, there was no time for viewers to form a logical sequence; instead Felzmann left the impression of a tenuous relationship between the viewer and the land.

Led to a darkened stage, we mill around as UV-lit dancers slither among us, hands snaking around our waists or lingering briefly on the backs of our necks.

The survivors flee for the forest, with Ben lingering briefly to grieve over Alex's body.

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