What is "lingerings"

Usage examples of "lingerings".

If this drunken watch-beating continues it will be a matter of one day's holiday between longer and longer lingerings in the Clink.

Whatever little lingerings may have now and then revived in my mind, associated with my poor old face, had revived as belonging to a part of my life that was gone—gone like my infancy or my childhood.

It lacked the imperfect recall, the fuzziness, the additions and subtractions dictated by wishful thinking and self-interest, to say nothing of the lingerings and lacunae and backtracking that can turn memory into hours-long daydreaming.