Delay, loiter

Usage examples of linger.

Widahd lingered abovestairs only long enough to to collect the necessaries, then trooped off to the semi-detached bath chamber, returning a good hour later.

Our eyes lingered as long as possible and with all eagerness upon these meadows and marshes which the poet has made immortal, and we regretted that inexorable Baddeck would not permit us to be pilgrims for a day in this Acadian land.

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.

He lingered a moment, wondering what it might be like to live on a site like this, to wake up every morning to views of Southsea se afront across the churning tide, then he let the binos drift down again until he was following a line of open gun ports.

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.

They strolled down to thank Brooks and Rollins who had been parking cars on the lower lawn and who lingered by the cars as if to make certain they stayed parked.

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