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After each hit, investigators knew she was the suspect because her perfume still lingered in the air.
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Behind the storm, very cold and gusty weather lingered.
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The hounskull lingered in use for some time after that, although it was decidedly out of fashion after the second decade of the fifteenth century.
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These sheds lingered on at the park for a number of years after the war.
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Minor crusading efforts lingered into the 14th century.
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When the theatre project fell through, the site lingered and fell in stature.
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Doctors were unable to help him, and he lingered on a cot in a hospital until his death in 1900.
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He lingered for nearly a month, living long enough to hear of his promotion to the rank of major-general for distinguished service in the field.
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The play is sprinkled with not only one-liners, but jokes that just lingered inside of my head even hours after the play had ended.
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Later, as the war slowly slunk into the past, the recollection of disfigured bodies lingered in the nation's art, a sign of latent horror.
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