verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lingering/nagging doubt (= one that does not go away )
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I still had a nagging doubt that there might be something seriously wrong.
a long/lingering kiss
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He gave her a a long, slow, lingering kiss.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
here
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No, he was not going to linger here .
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Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing?
long
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But the aroma of the food lingered long after all the sounds of movement had ceased.
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Even after swallowing it, its bitter taste lingered long in my mouth.
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Blanche did not linger long over the local news reports.
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He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while, but it was too cold to linger long .
on
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Alas, the poll tax will linger on , in less expensive form, until April 1993.
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Director Mike Figgis' powerfully bleak film lingers on like a hangover.&038;.
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It lingered on well into the 1930s.
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The whooping cough passed, but humiliation lingered on .
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Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways.
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The assumptions underlying the deconstructionist view of reality linger on in surprisingly wide circles of influence in the 1990s.
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But the issue will linger on until both governments agree to resume the repatriation programme.
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While his wife lingered on , in agony, he had no coverage at all.
over
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She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup.
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You can see at a glance the few places other readers lingered Over .
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Jacqui noticed that she spent ninety percent of her time lingering over the two dozen Allied officers left in the audience.
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There is no need to linger over this stage.
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Muriel said nothing while Lily lingered over breakfast and then disappeared upstairs.
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He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state.
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There was only one couple lingering over coffee and cigarettes.
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Unlike other tourists, we must not linger over these delights.
still
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Most still linger in county jails, awaiting the outcome of appeals or seeking jury trials.
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The air of empty spaces still lingered around her.
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But, his hand still lingering , he was straightening up.
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The onion smell still lingered , sharp and pungent.
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Here and there a few flakes of skin still lingered like the scurf of stars.
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Reverberations from that situation still linger .
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This had provoked hostility in some quarters towards him - a hostility that lingered still in the family-orientated Marsh End.
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If you sit down with somebody who has been on a series for four years, that feeling still lingers .
there
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Several men in the after shell-room lingered there too long... and were drowned.
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Warm fingers touch my shoulder; they linger there .
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Half a dozen girls, most of them hatted and ready for the street, lingered there .
too
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Don't linger too long, though.
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Other kids complained it tasted great at first, but the aftertaste lingered too long.
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She doesn't linger too long, for there are preparations to be made at home.
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Many lingered too long with their breakfast dishes.
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He had learned his craft and had lingered too long.
■ NOUN
coffee
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There was only one couple lingering over coffee and cigarettes.
death
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I dread a painful, lingering death .
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History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.
doubt
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But doubts are bound to linger and further clarifications are required to dispel them.
hand
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But, his hand still lingering , he was straightening up.
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His hand , lingering behind a moment, made a hook for her to follow.
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Stephen felt the softness of the chair beneath him and allowed his hand to linger on the brocade.
memory
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For those at Little Rock's night of celebration, the memory will linger for ever.
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Her memory must be lingering in every lonely room and courtyard - hence his hardness now.
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The benefits of the scheme, like the memories , will linger on.
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The memory lingered on, though, in the minds of many Stamford people.
mind
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None the less, a few crimes linger in the public mind .
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This notion of how the geodynamo might work has lingered in the minds of geomagnetists.
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In some ways it is an unfinished, unrealised film, yet it lingers potently in the mind .
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Looking back on college, academic involvements, including debating, linger most in my mind .
moment
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His hand, lingering behind a moment , made a hook for her to follow.
question
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But the question lingers: Just what visions do our current and former elected officials hold for this state and its people?
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A key question lingering is where the investors' money went.
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But a question lingers none the less: When we photograph our children naked, are we crossing a line without realizing it?
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This question continued to linger in our midst and shroud our lives in a ravenous expanse with no discernible seams or edges.
smell
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The smells lingered faintly to enchant the air even at this time of year, but the mystery of childhood had vanished.
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The onion smell still lingered , sharp and pungent.
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The smell of Warsaw lingers as that of coal.
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A musk smell lingered on Groves' sleeve, from where the female snake had curled around his arm.
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He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow, the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live.
■ VERB
let
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I am inclined to doubt it, but let us not linger , and consider instead the second premiss of the argument.
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You already blew it by letting it linger this long.
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Each of these station types had its own distinctive character and ambience. Let us linger a while at some of them.
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Violetta is hardly the type to let lingering illness disrupt her lusty courtesan life.
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I should not let them linger , wasting time, wasting money, until the spring brings them fresh hope.
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He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds, during which his bulk seems to swell in the room.
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It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years, when it should have been released long before.
seem
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These smells all seem to linger , unfolding page by page, Memories of years gone by, until the present age.
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Lilithian traditions seem to have lingered on in the Pyrenees until the twentieth century.
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The scent still seems to linger .
want
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Large lounge for those who want to linger .
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These are high-spending areas, and the management wants you to linger .
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I don't want to linger on in hospital with tubes and drugs and all that messy business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few fans lingered on after the concert was over.
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As she lingered over her coffee, the sky began to darken and heavy rain clouds swept in.
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Doubts about Manzi's honesty still linger on.
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Garlic has a taste which tends to linger in your mouth.
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I lingered on the sidewalk outside the old house, wondering who lived there now.
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Jack lingered for a while in the hall, hoping to get the chance to talk with her.
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She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.
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Summer weather has lingered longer than usual.
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The faint smell of cigar smoke lingered on in the room.
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Uncle Gene lingered on a year longer than doctors expected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the memory of that last family holiday together in Orkney lingers for ever.
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Derek, in a show of good manners, lingered long enough to exchange a few remarks.
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It usually takes several days for the pain to subside, although it can linger for weeks.
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Outside the church many parishioners lingered, distributing leaflets and gossiping.
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Spike, still feeling in disgrace, comes in with her but lingers in the doorway.
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The chromium, used to prevent pipe corrosion, was released from 1951 until 1966, but lingered in groundwater.
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The poets did not care to linger in that gloom-hidden abode.
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We lingered, not just because of the food but also because of the view out the picture window.