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Definition of "linger over" []

  • Delay (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "linger over" in a sentence
  • "If you have ceased to be moved by religious emotion; if your spirit is no longer exalted by music, and you do not linger over certain lines of poetry, it is because the love-instinct in your heart has withered to ashes of roses."
  • "Compared to Western Europe, Bohemia and the Slavic territories were still wild and thinly populated, offering many a fox a place to linger over a bit of loon, like some remote animal ancestor of Ernest Hemingway, but even there in the Eastern backwash, the gold-dust twins, Christianity and Commerce, had set up their crooked wheel of fortune."
  • "The young people were apt to linger over the breakfast table in talk."
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