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Example sentences for "lingeringly"

Lexicographically close words:
linger; lingered; lingereth; lingerie; lingering; lingerings; lingers; lingo; lingring; lings
  1. Lucretia went lingeringly across the wide old sitting-room, then across the old wide dining-room, into the kitchen.

  2. Willy disappeared lingeringly around the house, and the other boy, on being further bidden by Mr. Fairbanks, followed him.

  3. Her forlorn little figure disappeared lingeringly between the garden vines and bean poles.

  4. Siegfried, closely observed by the other two, gazes lingeringly after her, fast-bewitched.

  5. This crop still stood firm and hardy on the Reserve, and they often turned homesick eyes, talked lovingly and lingeringly of "down country," as they all called loved and cherished New England.

  6. He spoke with an honest, manly warmth, and the people were satisfied, and lingeringly and reluctantly dispersed to talk and wonder over the affair, and especially the part Barton had performed.

  7. Then with a gracious gesture, lingeringly and with the misty eyes of loving womanhood, she said her lonely farewells.

  8. I shall draw it out lingeringly that I may drain all its sweetness.

  9. And once or twice, in the course of the conversation, she looked again at Mrs. Burgoyne, more lingeringly each time.

  10. Then Eleanor saw her raise the terra-cotta, bow her face upon it, press it long and lingeringly to her lips.

  11. Do they keep an echo of the other world, as he still imagines that he sees a shade from it lying lingeringly across her face?

  12. Paul's hob-nailed boots went lingeringly up the uncarpeted stairs to the attic room, and there he spent the long, long afternoon.

  13. She kissed him warmly and lingeringly on the lips, and darted suddenly away.

  14. He dressed lingeringly and feebly, and when he had done so he went back to the tangle of water-weeds he had left on the river-bank.

  15. I lingeringly relished (why did not Johnson give us a verb to saporate?

  16. He hung lingeringly over all the treasure that you would enjoy and that I--I, the first discoverer, had so nobly and so generously relinquished.

  17. As the doctor had helped her out of it he appeared to think that he had excellent reasons for helping her in, and performed the attention lingeringly enough.

  18. She went back a third time; he did not see her now, and she lingeringly gazed up at his unconscious figure, loath to put an end to any kind of hope that might live on in him still.

  19. Venters did not wish to lose the meat, and he never allowed crippled game to escape, to die lingeringly in some covert.

  20. At the end of every storm a rainbow curved down into the leaf-bright forest to shine and fade and leave lingeringly some faint essence of its rosy iris in the air.

  21. His eyes dwelt lingeringly on the child, and still more lingeringly on the old, old man, before passing to that heaped-up mound of flowers, under which lay a murdered body and a bruised heart.

  22. We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever.

  23. He undressed slowly, and as he took off each garment he looked at it and touched it lingeringly before he laid it aside.

  24. And if they did so, better 210 So die than live on lingeringly in pain.

  25. Then down it lingeringly fell, note by note, wailing and menacing, an answering song of hatred against the solitary Oomgar and his gun.

  26. While he was lingeringly lighting a cigarette, Laurie asked a few questions.

  27. Four hours later Mr. Laurence Devon, lingeringly bidding good night to the lady of his heart, was surprised by a final confidence.

  28. So the boy prayed silently; and after his prayer he was about lingeringly to close the lattice, when he heard distinctly sobs close at hand.

  29. One cold hand he lifted to his lips, and held it there lingeringly a moment.

  30. His eyes left the uplands lingeringly and wandered across the sweeping fields of Desert Valley.

  31. Then, lingeringly and with many a backward look, Alan Howard went on his way.

  32. Lars Peter came lingeringly across the yard, and gave a helping hand.

  33. He stood at the door of the barn gazing lingeringly at his land.

  34. Never does one beautiful snow-dome fade lingeringly from the horizon, ere another pushes into the exquisitely colored atmosphere, in a chaste beauty that fairly thrills the heart of the beholder.

  35. Here he smiled, somewhat pleased with his own skill in metaphor, and having rubbed his bow enough, he drew it lingeringly across the 'cello strings.

  36. He spoke gently, yet not without a touch of passion, and twined the fair tresses lingeringly round his fingers, .


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lingeringly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.