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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
linger .
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Examples
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Spohn has undergone numerous medical treatments for ailments that have lingered from the contaminated water.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The pain lingered for a moment, but then disappeared together with his apartment, the girl, the police, the holo and the rain.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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But the damage lingered from the recession that started in December 2007.
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Set One is the set that's lingered from the post-Arisia bug - brief remission during Boskone, but apparently Boskone was too much stress, and I relapsed.
Odin's Day chebutykin 2009
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The richly colored music drips with threat, its swirling chords tinged with bitterness (Auguin lingered lovingly over them).
Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome' Anne Midgette 2010
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In his last year at New Haven some one referred to him as “lucky Dick” — the name lingered in his head.
Tender is the Night 2003
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Fire'the word lingered with a small beat in her mind.
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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The word lingered in Mr. Willis's mind, and he subsequently adopted it as the name of his new home.
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
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"_Maybe for ze great Krupps_" -- the phrase lingered in his mind and he stood there appalled at the realization of this awful, unexplained thing which had happened.
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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But the phrase lingered through her whole life, and eventually became part of it.
Evelyn Innes 1892
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