Sentence examples for lingers only from inspiring English sources

As for the dreamy, wistful Tessa, she lingers only long enough to tease and promise more.

The camera lingers only briefly on any one face and not necessarily in synch with the action.

The criminality provided against is a present, not a past, criminality, which lingers only as a memory, and involves no present danger of prosecution.

The question lingers, only half-answered, after seeing his retrospective, a taut, attractive, but oddly conventional looking survey, heavy on painting and sculpture.

A small circle of smooth, light and silky custard, it is deeply imbued with the warm, intense flavor of licorice, which lingers only if you avoid its accompanying pile of tangerine sections.

Bowie's vocals are utterly stable, never hasty but holding steady under massive thrust, shedding redundant stages as it accelerates, gaining height and impetus as it becomes smaller and smaller to the listening mind, dwarfed in the huge empyrean of the song's arrangement but somehow still focal… until it disappears completely and lingers only as an echo of itself in the mind's ear.

(NBC and ABC anchors lingered only a few minutes longer).

They linger only as fig leaves of authorial shame.

Like Alice's Cheshire Cat, who lingered only as a wide smile, Paley was often a shadow presence.

Philbin lingered only briefly, watching a few innings of the Mets' 2-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves beside Manager Terry Collins on the team's bench.

Not exactly the kind of place a reader wants to linger — only long enough to appreciate this author's sharp wit and commanding prose.