Keeps the host up, perhaps

Usage examples of lingers.

How he does, I do not know, nor can I say how robust the spark that lingers in him.

So, she lingers, trying her best to mother our house despite the burden of her years.

The closer we came to Icefyre, the clearer we could sense him, not just his life that lingers in him still, but his power.

And I fear the longer the Narcheska lingers among her women here, the harder they will make it for her to depart from them.

Even as the closing door blocks out her image, her scent lingers in the lift like an aura.

Dylan lingers as he leans across the nearest one, letting her scent evoke the old excitement.

It seemed to me that his parents looked on Charlie as a man long before he had ceased to be a boy, and they took no heed whatever of the baby who lingers in us all, so long as we live, and whose demands must sometimes be met.

My occasional hours with Esme, where she probes my memory and my sensibilities with the blunt end of her reporter's pencil, hint to me that though I have become a more complicated fool, the fool that I was as a youth still lingers somewhere inside me.