She lingered after the fair, because she didn't want to leave.
Her perfume lingered long after she left the room.
"when she walked past me the small of her perfume lingered a bit"
The smell of gun smoke lingered in the air as Johnny lowered his weapon.
Her haunting look lingered long in my hurting heart. It seems I've lingered too long.
He lingered after the funeral was over in order to pay his own personal last respects. While eaves dropping on two teachers in another classroom, the student lingered awhlie to see if they would come out.
After he ate three cockroaches, he lingered for three days.
The darkness of the night lingered in the sky.
this moring i lingered beacus i was so tired .
I have a lingering cough. Lingering is an adjective in that sentence. The verb is have.
It is a verb. Example: He lingered a long time at the cafeteria.
The sentence, " The fear had dissipated but the deafening silence still lingered in the vague afternoon humidity," is a logical, though wordy, sentence. There should however, be a comma between "dissipated" and "but."
I think that sentence is way too descriptive. It makes my mind think, "what did I just read?"