Lingering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINGERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
NOUN:
• the act of lingering
• the act of tarrying
ADJECTIVE:
• remaining
• Delaying.
• Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to delay leaving

Words related to LINGERING

linger7 lingered10 lingeringly16 lingers8 lurking12

Words that contain LINGERING

lingerings12 lingeringly16 malingering15

How to use LINGERING in a sentence

• He fingered the letter, lingering over it and scrutinizing the writing in a way that was not his wont.
• He wonders what excuse he can have for lingering in the grove.
• Better, like many of their people, to have perished at once by the spears of Umzilikazi and other savages than to endure these lingering tortures of fever and starvation.
• They were in time though, after all, for their feet kept pace with their happy thoughts and busy tongues, and there was no lingering on the way that evening.
• It was water, water everywhere, with not a drop to drink nor a morsel of food to eat, and with no prospect of escaping a lingering death of the most distressing nature.
• The hymn, the prayer, that had arisen there seemed to leave in the air only that lingering influence which past excitement lends to its acute reaction.
• At length, with one more lingering glance out upon the river, she turned and walked along a path leading from the shore.
• Sixty years afterwards, passages of Homer and Ovid were found lingering as melodious sounds in the memory of the youngest.
• With his voice lingering upon the last word, he turned and looked up at Alice.
• That half-hour he spent in his inner room and, when he came out, there was lingering about his face a glory as of a departing vision.
• His first labors were in Africa, but being seized by a lingering illness, he returned to Europe and landed in Italy.
• He died of a lingering and painful disease, never losing his courage and patience, or his devoted interest in science.
• Each natural object seemed to gain a new accent, a more individual beauty, from the vanishing and yet lingering sunlight.
• All I could do was to give one long lingering look to the southward before I returned.
• Field by the appearance of the broken-down equipage lingering in front of their dwelling.
• Day had just began to dawn when we arrived upon the plain, and commenced our search among the bodies, to see if there were any who yet remained lingering in existence.
• Here, seated at a small table, lingering over her ice-cream, Nancy was all observant eyes and ears.
• In descending the spiral stairs, he came to a narrow window, which overlooked the moat, and from thence he saw Tamar lingering on the other side thereof.
• If I have some lingering fears of the God of Belteshazzar, it must not be made manifest.
• The last lingering hope of Mexico, if she still could have retained any, that Texas would ever again become one of her Provinces, must have been abandoned.
• THE hours passed in lingering torture over the head of Nydia from the time in which she had been replaced in her cell.
• Lingering and clasped within her loving arms I, through her dewy, deep, blue eyes, beheld Her inmost soul, and knew that love was there.
• If I had any lingering doubt as to his ability, this one preliminary act dispelled it.

Similar words containing LINGER without suffix ing

linger7 blinger10 clinger10 flinger11 lingers8 slinger8 clingers11 flingers12 lingered10 lingerer9 lingerie9 malinger11 slingers9 lingerers10 lingeries10 malingers12 malingery15 willinger13 gunslinger12 lingerings12 malingered14 malingerer13 mudslinger14 stallinger11 gunslingers13 lingeringly16 malingerers14 malingeries14 malingering15 mudslingers15 stallingers12

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