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"Lapse" in a Sentence (22 examples)
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Every time we talk about this, you lapse into silence.
We impose upon our representatives a high standard of probity. Even a small lapse in integrity will result in recall.
His person was not eminent enough, either by nature or circumstance, to deserve a public memorial simply for his own sake, after the lapse of a century and a half from the era in which he flourished.
A social grant to those who lost their jobs during the pandemic will extend through the transition period, after which all measures will lapse.
The air increased in transparency with the lapse of minutes, till the topaz points showed themselves to be the vanes, windows, wet roof slates, and other shining spots upon the spires, domes, freestone-work, and varied outlines that were faintly revealed.
The road-physician was fairly up to time; but, to the surprise of Jude on striking into his pace, which the pedestrian did not diminish by a single unit of force, the latter seemed hardly to recognize his young companion, though with the lapse of the fortnight the evenings had grown light.
Tom began to lapse in and out of consciousness.
It was a serious lapse in judgment.
memory lapse
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lapse of judgment
lapse in security
lapse in concentration
Now, tho’ this Scripture may be usefully understood and apply’d by us as a Caution to guard against those Lapses and Failings to which our Infirmities daily expose us
The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity
Still onward winds the dreary way; I with it; for I long to prove No lapse of moons can canker Love, Whatever fickle tongues may say.
Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame
This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended
Homer, however, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, in his story of Mars and Venus, in his behaviour of Irus and in other passages has been observed to have lapsed into the Burlesque character, and to have departed from that serious Air which seems essential to the magnificence of an Epic Poem.
To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers.
The connections at Lewisham were never built, and the powers of the Act lapsed; but the spur at Nunhead was partly constructed.
...and if the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Months ensuing, it lapses to the King, but according to the Canon Law to the Pope.
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