Sentence examples for used to linger from inspiring English sources

Fascinated by the family business, Johnson used to linger when his father held evening meetings on the porch.

We used to linger in the restaurant & listen to him expound his theories - for he was spreading it thick even then.

There were two gay bars in the neighborhood where I grew up, and I used to linger outside them as a teenager when I walked the family dog.

Curtly Ambrose used to linger over a good length before he bowled, occasionally dispensing his magic dust and grinning maniacally, but I'm not quite sure what Edwards has in mind.

Through freakish waxworks which may or may not be alive, she also provides a dark perspective on body modification, and I couldn't help remembering that Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, used to linger for hours over the ghastlier anatomical specimens in his local wax museum.

Among Scottish Catholics, who account for about 16% of the population, there used to be a lingering fear that an independent Scotland would enhance the privileges of the Protestant church; but as Protestantism wanes, that fear has less reason to exist.

Secondly, reversal of neuromuscular blockade with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors is used to antagonise potentially lingering effects of non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents at the end of surgery.

I loved the level of detail — I used to sort of linger on the pages, especially the more panoramic ones.