Sentence examples for of lingers from inspiring English sources

The sleazebag shakes the wife's hand, and it looks as if her hand kind of lingers in his.

Darlington helps at a post-mortem examination of a road casualty ("You might want to take off your jumper," she is told. "The smell sort of lingers").

It just kind of lingers there, like maybe it's not something you ate but something you smelled (sometimes strong skunk will do that to me).

Herpes quickly becomes that annoying friend that invited themselves into a threesome but just kind of lingers and gets in the way.

The impression was of lingering disgust.

And it had a way of lingering.

And it sort of lingered.

He dismissed the possibility of lingering hostility.

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

Did any of them feel a sense of lingering guilt?

Perhaps to shake off any chance of lingering DVT.