lingering
She sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly
He died, lingeringly, of cancer.
I mused lingeringly on everything that had happened that day.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Slow and moving slowly
(as) slow as molassesidiom
at a snail's paceidiom
by and byidiom
by degreesidiom
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
float
hang around
in ones and twosidiom
inch by inchidiom
infiltrate
infiltration
jog
labour
sluggishly
sluggishness
snail
staged
steadily
struggle
wander
Examples of lingeringly
lingeringly
The textual unfixity of his bodily injury insinuates its
lingeringly irregular character, even though his body has ostensibly healed.
Down in the hole,
lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
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