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Definition of Lingering

Lingering

  1. of Linger
  2. Delaying.
  3. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.

Lingering Quotations

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
Carl Lewis

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
Yann Martel

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg Buchner
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Lingering Translations

lingering in German is verweilend, nachklingend
lingering in Italian is esitante
lingering in Latin is lentus
lingering in Norwegian is dvelende, langvarig
lingering in Spanish is prolongado

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