Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in…

There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Mehmed’s face and the feeling of his hands on her body still haunted her, though. She wished she could carve out his memory with…

— Kiersten White

If i had known... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

— Bill Nye

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Had I known you were waiting, Miss MacFarlane, I would not have lingered,I assure you." Flattery was something she knew how to deal with,…

— Karen Hawkins

“I lingered a bit longer. The tug of kinship held me there, bound me to the place and to a man I had never…

— Daniel James Brown

“She lingered by the door, in a tunic of deep blue and gold, unbuttoned with careless grace at the neck, her hair loose at…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Then, like now, she had lingered on the brink of a decision, and had not found in his favour. Now, perhaps, she has. He…

— Laura Barnett

“city, but still it lingered, like a tune or an aroma, set in motion whenever”

— Joan London

“Even when he was gone, some fragment of his spirit lingered behind.”

— Stephanie Perkins

But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without…

— Philip K. Dick

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

— Jack London

“Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.”

— Katherine McIntyre

“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.”

— Khaled Hosseini