lingering
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L0185300 (lĭng′gər)Lingering
- Brooded over … the way a plane caught in a fog hovers longingly over a blurred landing strip —Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- (Haven’t you got anything better to do than) hang around here like a prairie dog in heat —line from the movie, Bronco Billy.
- Hang around like a rent collector or a man come to fix the faucet —Harvey Swados
- Hang around like sullen clouds over the sun —John Ashberry
- Hanging around like a fart in a phone box —Australian colloquialism
- [An idea] hang over … like a thunderstorm reluctant to break —Gavin Lyall
- [The smell of circus lions] hangs like August heat —Delmore Schwartz
- Hover like a moth intoxicated with light —John Galsworthy
- Hover like butterflies —Lee Smith
- Hover over like an ugly bird of prey —Anon
- Hung around … like a herd of sheep with no sheep dog —Ignazio Silone
- (The Fraziers had refused to leave his mind; they had stayed on,) imposing themselves on his consciousness and his conscience like the troubling memory of a drunken evening —Elizabeth Hardwick
- Languish like a mist at noon —Herbert Read
- Lingered like heat, like poppy petals, like desert sand —Kay Boyle
- Lingered, like smoke after fire —Paul Kuttner
- Lingering like an unloved guest —Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Lingering like second thoughts —George Bradley
- (Light) lingers like a lover’s tongue —Bin Ramke
This simile concludes a poem entitled What the Weather is Like.
- Lodged like a marble in a crack —James Crumley
- Loitered like a school child —Jean Stafford
- (A cold notion flew into my brain and) squatted there like a buzzard, patient, in a tree —George Garrett
- Stalling like a Scotchman in front of a pay toilet —Harold Adams
| Noun | 1. | lingering - the act of tarrying |