How To Use Lingerer In A Sentence
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TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilights glory:
A Call of the Sidhe
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It is interesting that the latter diagnosis was given by a doctor who told you it was a condition dreamed up by malingerers.
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While many leave as early as the end of July, a few late lingerers sometimes remain into early winter, visiting suet or hummingbird feeders.
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However, recent research reported that we have become a nation of malingerers, with nearly six million of us too sick to work.
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Malingerer's arm was low, but it never fell below shoulder level.
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Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.
Beard
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I am not usually a hypochondriac, or a malingerer, I'm glad to say.
Worried
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Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.
Beard
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As a globe-trotting malingerer, I have always enjoyed returning from a jaunt abroad with fresh support for popular American stereotypes about foreigners.
French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy
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The word “malingerer” popped into his head, but he tried to put it out of his mind.
My First Abortion
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So it was that a decorated war hero with two tours of combat duty becomes a malingerer and a braggert.
Refracted Reality
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He was a good-hearted man at the bottom, however, and as tender as a woman in cases of real suffering; though woe to the malingerer or shammer of illness who incautiously ventured within reach of his caustic tongue!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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For the listener; for the lingerer with a love glides
The Wreck of the Deutschland
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On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Roy was, at best a malingerer, and a worst a party crasher.
3 oz. of liquid
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They made him feel like a malingerer for complaining about his back pain, he says, and "they pretty much classified me as a dirt bag.
Resistance is all: iraq war vet suicide rate still climbing, chronically ill soldiers forced to deploy
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The Knicks -- the laughing stock, the abyss of the NBA -- got a new coach who cleaned house and courageously, in a principled manner benched the team's top malingerer, Stephon Marbury.
Dave Hollander: New York Sportswriters Missing Forest Through the Trees
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‘Please evacuate this facility, the president wishes to use it,’ they would have ordered any lingerers, hardly giving them time to zip up their flies.
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It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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May I point out that you could be pulled over for flashing your highbeams at the left lane lingerer.
Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers
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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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He said officers should ‘crack down on lingerers’ and was told the council is trying to prevent staff taking a half day sick after weekends and bank holidays without being ill.
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A child's outcry, more "malapert" than the priest, called the attention of the lingerers, and before any one knew, the passion of destruction had seized like a frenzy upon the people.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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I feel like a malingerer without a cause to point to.
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Psychosocial problems may be, or become, predominant, especially if patients are treated as malingerers or hypochondriacs.
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In 11 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr had won two Stanley Cups by the time he had turned 21 and he admittedly became spoiled with the trappings of super-stardom—earning him a reputation as a malingerer.
Why Didn't New York Keep Jagr?
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What drew slightly more attention was his penchant for staying after class, gently proselytizing about Jesus to some of the younger lingerers.
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Then just as the gangway was about to be withdrawn, it suddenly came over her that a whole ocean was soon to roll between her and those who loved her best, and she clung to Laurie, the last lingerer, saying with a sob ...
Little Women
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Bill Shankly had little patience or sympathy for injured footballers and once called Chris Lawler a "malingerer" when a thigh strain in 1971 restricted the full-back to light training after he had made more than 300 appearances in succession for Liverpool.
England's crocks could have helped the 'golden generation' to shine | Rob Bagchi
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Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory
Imaginations and Reveries
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Of the nine, a number were malingerers who the manager was having difficulty motivating.
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The best bars attract a diverse clientele, and the Local pulls in post-work lingerers, students, canoodling couples and pre-clubbers in equal measure.
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Apparently, we are not only procrastinators and malingerers but a bunch of lily-livered cowards because going to the dentist tops the list, followed by exercising and saving money.
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Other states, like New York, have created an entirely state-funded duplicate of welfare for the malingerers.
