How To Use lingerer In A Sentence
- What drew slightly more attention was his penchant for staying after class, gently proselytizing about Jesus to some of the younger lingerers.
- It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
- May I point out that you could be pulled over for flashing your highbeams at the left lane lingerer. Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers
- The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- He said officers should ‘crack down on lingerers’ and was told the council is trying to prevent staff taking a half day sick after weekends and bank holidays without being ill.
- A child's outcry, more "malapert" than the priest, called the attention of the lingerers, and before any one knew, the passion of destruction had seized like a frenzy upon the people. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
- I feel like a malingerer without a cause to point to.
- Psychosocial problems may be, or become, predominant, especially if patients are treated as malingerers or hypochondriacs.
- In 11 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr had won two Stanley Cups by the time he had turned 21 and he admittedly became spoiled with the trappings of super-stardom—earning him a reputation as a malingerer. Why Didn't New York Keep Jagr?
- ‘Please evacuate this facility, the president wishes to use it,’ they would have ordered any lingerers, hardly giving them time to zip up their flies.
