Linger is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINGER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to delay departure
• stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave
• spend a long time over (something)
• be slow to disappear or die
• delay or prolong departure
• To protract; to draw out.
• To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one\'s days on a sick bed.
• remain present although waning or gradually dying
• be about
• leave slowly and hesitantly
• take one\'s time; proceed slowly
• move to and fro
ADJECTIVE:
• To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to delay leaving

Words related to LINGER

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Words that contain LINGER

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How to use LINGER in a sentence

• Besides, he had not heart or desire to linger any longer, since he had received such a staggering blow.
• There was shade of delicate birches on either hand, whenever we loved to linger.
• Louis, it is usual to count three crusades, over which we will not linger.
• He will be looking anxiously for me now, so I must not linger a moment longer.
• They did not linger long at table, but soon left it and returned together to the drawing room.
• I did not linger long in my pretty parlour, for a heavy task was before me.
• Hamilton put up his umbrella, and stood waiting for me under the shrubs, but a sudden impulse made me linger.
• They were whimsical, the pair, with books as with regard to other things, but the few who might invade their library were inclined to linger there.
• When the thread has left your finger, Something of yourself may linger, Something of your lovely beauty May sustain him in his duty.
• After that hour, Alban was free to smoke his pipe, and to linger among trees and flower-beds before he returned to his hot little rooms in the village.
• But his eyes did not linger there nor his thoughts upon shipwreck and sudden death.
• The master muttered a few words indistinctly, but he did not linger in the cabin beside that awful little corpse.
• He did not linger long to conjecture the cause of the change, but with hasty steps prepared to ascertain in person the reason.
• Let me linger over the memory of scenes which have passed away.
• But the memories of him that linger in the valley, or those that are revived at the mention of his name, are of him in the role of husband, father and friend.
• We have not patience to linger with his wife and him, but push past them to the hero spirit, whom they have not eyes to see nor hearts to understand.
• Yet, if one takes the time to linger over these unusual words and combinations of words, one is likely to find that they are strong and appropriate.
• But in all this she was disappointed, for Sir Charles did not linger over preliminaries.
• Realizing that he could not linger much longer, as the chill of the water was already entering his body, he swam closer to Shepard, still staring directly into his eyes.
• There gladly will we follow her, for the scenes of violence and evil passion we have slightly touched on are not subjects on which we love to linger.
• She remembered how she had waited for him, the tumult of doubt, of misgiving, in her soul, how she had wished he would not linger in that desolate place.
• Never in all her life had she lingered over any task that lay before her, and she did not linger now.
• But the gloom of the tragedy is not allowed to linger.
• The abyss of heaven swallows up his form, and yet I linger.
• The latter still manifested a noisy impatience at being suffered, in so inhospitable a manner, to linger without.
• I am not going to linger at all on the exquisite beauty of these illustrations.
• Some linger very late, and make their way back by the light of the moon.

Similar words containing LING without suffix er

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