Sentence examples for lingers close from inspiring English sources

A tragic undertone lingers close to the surface but Rowland understands he doesn't need to draw attention to it: it's there, contextualising everything, but never getting in the way of the comedy.

Exxon Mobil's value lingers close to $300 billion, and its 2008 profit topped $45 billion.

Critics vary widely in their reading of the story, including one who thinks it is about the medical condition of anorexia, a notion so absurd that it lingers close to being Kafkaesque.

Fans had been abandoning the team for years; attendance was lingering close to the bottom of the league.

Emboff lingered close to Masimov's group XXXXXXXXXXXX Masimov led his companions on to Chocolat's dance floor soon after their arrival.

This slow moving typhoon weakened, then re-intensified again before passing just to the south of Manila, and lingering close to south-west Luzon on Wednesday.

The high air pollution across central and southern England and parts of Wales is due to light easterly winds bringing pollutants from the continent and allowing local pollution to linger close to where it is produced.

On the other hand, in aged collectors, the bacteria were mostly seen lingering close to the vessel wall (Fig. 5l) and often visually observed exiting the lumen through the lymphatic wall.

Violence is rare, quick and devoid of lingering close-ups.

There are no lingering close-ups or hushed moments of thrilling intimacy with wild animals.

More common are those who linger closer to where the warning track meets the grass.