Remain present although waning or gradually dying

Usage examples of lingering.

From The Hague, John Adams promised to be with them in a matter of days, but warned that there could be no lingering in London.

Any lingering questions about their construction could be answered then by the aliens themselves.

None of the other players at the table had succeeded in capturing the wandering spirit of good fortune, but for the cachet of lingering near a celebrity like Ianthe Apeiron they continued to make their wagers.

Of these, Ravenna had been the last to withdraw, lingering while she fashioned the Ions, one great beast for every land: the starhorse Avarclon for the white plain of Avaric, the cockatrice of Elver, the gryphon of Terrain.

But their wants soon reduced them to stock-raiding and other predatory practices, with the result that in the end the whole countryside made common cause against them, and so the last phase of the fratricidal struggle deteriorated into a man hunt away in the backblocks north of Perth and the southern districts, full of heroic incidents, but devoid of historical interest except as far as serving, by reason of its sordidness and cruelty, to extinguish thoroughly any lingering sympathy which the coastal population might still cherish for the lost cause of Western Australia.

After the war, the United States maintained a small naval task force in the area based in Bahrain in support of the lingering British military presence.

Papa Schimmelhorn cast one last lingering look at the pair of Balinese, and mutely shook Little Anton by the hand.

I make sure to fill his wineglass with an excellent Barbaresco he keeps thanking me with a nod and a relaxed smile, his eyes lingering on mine, only sometimes distracted by the lights and cameras and various assistants swirling around us.

Never before had she observed Indians lingering in the forest around her house, performing birdcalls for the fun of it.

Vanora gave Bors a heavy, lingering kiss and a penetrating look filled with erotic promise, then got up and began to meander languidly across the yard.

Brief brushes, lip to lip, never lingering, teasing her into wanting more.

She dies of long and lingering disease: yet SHE is in fault, SHE is the criminal, SHE the froward and untamable child,--and society, forsooth, the pure and virtuous matron, who casts her as an abortion from her undefiled bosom!

Blade saw that the Second Neuter had arrived and was lingering in the background, along with a Lieutenant and a squad of ceboid soldiers.

During the past three 58 COME TO CASTLEMOOR days he had come out to the house every afternoon, lingering long after the sun went down, and once he and Bella had gone for a stroll that lasted a good two hours.

They all bade Condy good-night and took themselves away, Howard lingering a moment in the door in the hope of the nickel he dared not ask for.