(a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
(v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
(v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Play Video 6:52 Prime minister Theresa May calls general election for 8 June – full video statement If May wins a large Commons majority, the lingering hope that Britain will change its mind will be dashed.
(2) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(3) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(4) But in the minds of many Israelis, they continue to linger.
(5) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
(6) So our lingering affection for the cross is entirely symbolic.
(7) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(8) And that has more lingering, long-term consequences for the public finances.
(9) The exception actually lies with those who have had Ebola and recovered: studies suggest the virus can linger in semen for up to three months after recovery – so you may wish to think twice before having sex.
(10) Despite a lingering belief that they could have "gone in" with Labour if they had wanted to, the Lib Dems decided to abide responsibly by the logic of FPTP, and form a government that nobody had voted for at all.
(11) Olivier Blanchard, IMF director of research, said: “New factors supporting growth – lower oil prices, but also depreciation of euro and yen – are more than offset by persistent negative forces, including the lingering legacies of the crisis and lower potential growth in many countries”.
(12) But he will surely need help from elsewhere if Argentina are to linger deep into this competition.
(13) Our method of testing detects no lingering or permanent change after a single concussion.
(14) The study, aimed at examining lingering problems of veterans returning from both conflicts, also called into question a Defense Department policy which bans restricting access to private weapons "even if a service member is at risk from suicide".
(15) Between the 10-year projection of a half million FTE nursing shortage, astronomical medical care costs and a lingering recession, nursing administrators have no option but to make difficult choices in resource allocation.
(16) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
(17) Her wonderful shop will remain open, and her presence will linger there as long as it does.
(18) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
(19) Numbers showing weak wage growth as inflation edges up will provide traction for Labour's election campaign around lingering cost-of-living crisis.
(20) Writing in the Guardian , Mikhail Prokhorov, 46, said Russia was "undergoing a true awakening" – while warning of a lingering threat of violence as opposition leaders plan a new mass demonstration against the rule of Putin, the prime minister, on 4 February.
Wiggle
Definition:
(v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.
(n.) Act of wiggling; a wriggle.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Ian Wright, the chair of the then business innovations and skills select committee and one of the MPs behind Thursday’s motion, said the criticism of their work by Green’s team was an attempt to “wiggle off the hook”.
(2) Similarities and differences between the neural control of lordosis and ear wiggling in infant and adult rats suggest that the infant sex-like behaviors may be precursors of adult female sexual behavior.
(3) Eagle has since said that her pinkie wiggle was "commenting on the size of GDP growth".
(4) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(5) There was little about business, again, and some of the spending language conceals the fact that Labour may be quietly creating a very considerable amount of wiggle-room on investment – as much as £50bn each year, according to the IFS.
(6) Ear wiggling was disrupted by transections throughout the hindbrain and was facilitated only in females by transections throughout the forebrain (anterior to the mammillary bodies).
(7) Simple models are used to calculate the inelastic light scattering spectrum of motile bacteria when wiggling motions are included in addition to translational displacement.
(8) We are not letting anyone wiggle out of any commitments and I have every confidence that the government will honour its commitments,” she added.
(9) However, analysts expect that the Green party's decision to rule itself out of the future coalition could allow chancellor Angela Merkel some wiggle room in scaling back the speed of the shutdown, expected to cost €550m.
(10) 5.58pm BST In Mitt Romney 's ceremonial end to his world tour – the traditional interview with Fox News – Romney appeared to try and wiggle out of his "cultural" argument regarding Israel's superiority over Palestine.
(11) Such cuts would presumably be ones that were considered but rejected in favour of the tax credit cuts in July.” The only other way to avoid a Commons vote would be if the OBR reduced their forecast for welfare spending, since that would give the chancellor a “little more wiggle room under the cap”.
(12) I said, ‘What’s so funny?’ and they told me that my toes were wiggling.
(13) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
(14) He took on a respected urine-sample collector named Dino Laurenzi , whose decision to store samples at his office ultimately allowed Braun the wiggle room he needed to overturn his suspension for testing positive for PEDs.
(15) These data suggest that facilitation from the hypothalamus is required for lordosis in the infant rat and the forebrain inhibitory systems for ear wiggling are functional in female infants by 6 days of age.
(16) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
(17) She leans forward and wiggles her bum while clutching a teddy bear.
(18) It was found that estrous females showed about twice as much ear wiggling in the presence of intact males as in the presence of gonadectomized male and female rats.
(19) Before the election Abbott vowed to end uncertainty by "guaranteeing that no school will be worse off over the forward estimates period" but Pyne’s new formulation leaves wiggle room for the states to be blamed.
(20) Facial wiggle that resulted from direct electrical facial nerve stimulation caused synchronous contraction of all reinnervated strap muscles under study; this was documented on film and through facial and strap muscle activity tracings.