Example Sentences

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Crude prices have been lingering around $100 a barrel as the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping route looked like it would remain blocked for the foreseeable future.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Concerns over Frank's appointment have been lingering for months.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

She’s slashing prices on about 100 books that have been lingering in Amazon warehouses for about a year before her storage fees go up.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022

In the meantime, science missions that have been lingering for years or otherwise had little chance of reaching space are poised to make it to the moon.

From Scientific American • Aug. 2, 2022

Of course they had not treated him well; but what would his congregation, some of whom might have been lingering in the churchyard, have thought, to see him leave them as he did?

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George