How do you use linger in sentence?

Answer 1

I lingered around the hospital.

The smell of the skunk lingered for hours.

Why do you still linger here, after I told you to leave?

I'm going to linger around just a bit longer.

I like to linger outside the front doors of the school and watch for my friends.

Everyone else had left already, but I chose to linger and take a last look around the place.

After being rudely denied the opportunity to date his requited love, the young boy decided it would be much better to leave rather than to linger and potentially embarrass himself further.

You shouldn't linger on the street corner so long. The cops might mistake you for a drug dealer

i lingered in the hall for a second.

I had an appointment across town, and I could not linger.

He let his gaze linger once more on the serene lake as he drove away.

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"Linger" means that you're sort of hanging around - So you could use it like this: The harried mother told her child that he couldn't linger in the candy shop today.

this moring i lingered beacus i was so tired .

Answer 2

After dinner, they decided to linger outside in the garden and enjoy the cool evening air.