"But can he truly have passed if his spirit still lingers?"

But the spirit of the question lingered in the air.

Once a person died, his or her spirit would linger, looking for the place where they belonged.

He felt a sudden chill in the room as if spirits of the lost mothers and children lingered here.

But his spirit still lingered with his remains, as that of a new dead person will often do.

If she already had one, that spirit may linger around her.

You must remember, a man's spirit never lingers far from the man himself.

The longer a liberated spirit lingers, the more likely he will get stuck here.

But that spirit of Steve Jobs will linger in the company for a while.

Some- times, Varzil knew, when a person died suddenly, the spirit often lingered for a time.