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lingered
verb as in loiter, delay
Strong matches
Example Sentences
He didn't call people with imperfect health the "Untermenschen," but the implication lingered throughout the hearing, as he repeatedly framed them as ignorant, lazy, and parasitical.
A number of people - including the man now convicted of her murder, neighbour and odd-job man David Newton - were arrested, but nobody was charged and the case lingered for years as unsolved.
The smell of toxic smoke has lingered in Altadena and homes still standing on West Terrace Street have been boarded up as residents stay away.
But his first free throw was short, a miss that lingered with him after the game.
"They scattered from the truck but Lewes lingered," says Ms Amonds-Windmill, who devotes a chapter to the incident in her book Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS and Special Forces.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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