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How to use the word Lingers in a Sentence?

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I would say that as long as COVID lingers on and people’s lives are being disrupted by it, that Biden’s approval will continue to take a hit, and it will get worse over time. So if omicron turns out to transmit more rapidly and severely than Delta did — and especially if it resists the vaccines — Biden’s numbers will sink lower and lower.

– David Barker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The virus can travel all the way from China to India via air and lingers in the air on the street,but it is unable to enter through air into the house and gives profits to media and medical fraternity. Now LoL

– Millennium Comedy

added by anonymous
4 years ago

There are two types of scars; those that are visible and those that are not. Both indicate that you been hurt but only the external scars will show if you been healed. No one can see the scars inside us or if our injury still lingers.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

So far, farmers don't feel the pinch directly. But if this lingers on, and we still have billions of bushels in extra supply, this could become more of a 2019 story.

– Grant Kimberley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The question lingers: what do we recognize as fact? Is it what Tillerson says, what the president says or what (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) Nikki Haley says? we have so many voices and they all sound different.

– Gernot Erler

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Poland has been let down by its allies in the past, the suspicion still lingers in the minds of Poles.

– Tim Ripley

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He put the story out there in the first place, so he has the responsibility to back it up, if he does, believe me, Chris, we'll move on next week to something else. If you don't, that's when it lingers.

– New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Korean consumers now want to flaunt themselves, there lingers antipathy towards the wealthy, but at the same time there is aspiration to be wealthy.

– Kevin Kang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There lingers antipathy towards the wealthy, but at the same time there is aspiration to be wealthy.

– Kevin Kang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

– Homer, The Iliad

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.

– Yiddish Proverb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

– Homer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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