Sentence examples for permitted to linger from inspiring English sources

The suspicion persists they will be permitted to linger, for selfish reasons, until the price is right.

Visitors are permitted to linger amid the intimacy of the family living quarters, where snaps of the present Duke and his children jostle with priceless portraits and tapestries from past eras.

Sipped slowly, and permitted to linger on the palate, the meaty, deeply grapey wine unpacks layers of complex dark fruit, dark licorice and chocolate flavor, all underpinned by fresh acidity and fairly firm tannins.

Coetzee's project does not permit him to linger at such scenes of metropolitan life; his characters are all incidental to "the story of his life that he tells himself," a concept expressed in "Boyhood" as "the only story he will admit, the story of himself".

When we look down on the behavior of others, we feel more secure in our own choices and lifestyles; we can feel permitted to put aside the lingering guilt concerning how we consume the world's resources, treat others, or waste precious time on empty endeavors (flicking through profiles on dating apps leaping to mind).

Viewers are then permitted to rub their fingers in the puddle of holy water, but doing so results in a vaginal odor lingering on your person for an extended period of time.

I haven't been permitted to concentrate.

Junior monks are not permitted to read.

"I am not permitted to gamble".

China was not permitted to interfere.

Microfinance companies are already permitted to operate.