(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
Used in a Sentence
lingered
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lingered.
Editorial note
Or is it the renters have gotten used to prices that lingered unsustainably low for a surprisingly long time?
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Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of lingered gathered in one view.
(intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
(intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for lingered.
verb
(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
verb
(intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
verb
(intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
Example sentences
Or is it the renters have gotten used to prices that lingered unsustainably low for a surprisingly long time?
They lingered with a website that was updated every couple of years promising a release soon.
The children who deliberated, or lingered over the marshmallow, were more likely to cave in.
This particular incident has lingered secretly for well over a decade, and that is oppressive.
Lastly, there is the lingering thought that Windows market dominance facilitated investment that solved the shortcomings of x86, while G4 lingered.
Heart transplants caused a lot of upset at first, because folk beliefs about the heart as the seat of the soul still lingered.
Some have lingered, painfully, and wished for but could not have euthanasia.
Ours fit neatly between a stock market crash (1929) and the end of a war (1945) while theirs lingered on for about 15 years longer.
Then Bharat left, and I left, and others… and the bug lingered for years.
After the game we lingered around and Chris called us down to the court.
We lingered so long the guards chased us out.
Any doubts that lingered, were quickly wiped away with the next version or two of the iPhone (the 3GS specifically had a huge leap in camera quality).
Quote examples
Some of the “hot” technologies took off (CPU architectures, genome computations, ray tracing); some lingered on in the same early 2000s state (genetic algorithms, etc).
> "Even in America, old habits, like his KGB-induced skepticism of the police lingered." [Cough].
I've worked for three startups - two of which failed fast and the other which lingered on and was always about to "make it big." I had dropped out of college and by the time you're on your third fail and looking for a job you realize nobody cares at that point how many failed startups you've worked for and all the cool, leading-edge, things you were doing.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use lingered in a sentence?
Or is it the renters have gotten used to prices that lingered unsustainably low for a surprisingly long time?
What does lingered mean?
(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
What part of speech is lingered?
lingered is commonly used as verb.