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• The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.From the entry stock
• "A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates.2017, Jen Lancaster, The Gatekeepers, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry brospeak
• 'Rubber ducked,' I told him, lapsing in to Edinburgh rhyming slang.2002, Quintin Jardine, chapter 23, in Poisoned Cherries, Headline Publishing. From the entry rubber ducked
• "Dionne, one: I am seriously regretful over last night's lapse," I said, turning my head phoneward.1997, H. B. Gilmour, Cher and Cher alike. From the entry phoneward
• Students lapse to interjectural speech, gibberish, mimic any dialect, brogue, defect and affectation of speech.1969, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence, volume 2, page 403. From the entry interjectural
• Education is a continuous process which, unless maintained, soon lapses into the state of maleducation.1969, Report of Proceedings of the Commonwealth Foundation, page 7. From the entry maleducation
• I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism.1954, Bertrand Russell, History as an Art, page 197. From the entry cocksure
• I wondered—pardon me—if it would be possible as a matter of lapsing time to ask Dr.1952, United States. Congress. House. Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Hearings, page 238. From the entry briefed
• Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass. From the entry encumberment
• During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond. From the entry massage
• This is not the first time that I learnt of a neighbor's death after a lapse of a few weeks.2012, Satish C. Bhatnagar, Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, volume 1, page 16. From the entry beehive
• You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion.2012 June 20, Brian Bethune, “Two against one: About coupledom and the stigma of being single”, in Maclean's. From the entry backslider
• The reason for this is that by densitizing the lapse we are transforming derivatives of ai into derivatives of dimm.2008, Miguel Alcubierre, Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry densitize
• Don't overdo it, or you may lapse into melodrama.2004, James Scott Bell, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, Penguin, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry on the nose
• Fortunately, the hyperbolicity of the system can be changed by densitizing the lapse and adding constraints to the evolution equations.2004, Nicolae Tarfulea, Constraint Preserving Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations. From the entry densitize
• "Dionne, one: I am seriously regretful over last night's lapse,"1997, H. B. Gilmour, Cher and Cher alike. From the entry regretful
• It is the very artlessness of linguistic lapses that makes them so endearing and makes us feel superior.1996 November, Richard Lederer, “Introduction”, in Fractured English: A Pleasury of Bloopers and Blunders, Fluffs and Flubs, and Gaffes…. From the entry blooper
• Very common, that sort of mental lapse.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry memory like a sieve
• To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.1911, Ralph Barton Perry, “Notes on the Philosophy of Henri Bergson”, in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods…. From the entry nescience
• They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of access to specialized food and physical therapy, displacement and the unrelenting stress of war.2024 April 10, Lynsey Addario, “‘Mom, I Want to Live’: A Young Girl Battles War and Cancer”, in The New York Times. From the entry misdiagnosis
• Hopkins describes "missing time" as a time lapse of approximately two hours, after which the abductee can consciously remember little or nothing of the experience.1996, Angela Hague, David Lavery, Marla Cartwright (editors), Deny All Knowledge, Reading the X-Files, page 8. From the entry missing time
• Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor.1975, George Martin Yuill, The Treatment of Renal Failure, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry obtundity
• You hear Christians lapse into it all the time with the lazy argument, "Oh, that's just the Old Testament", when confronted by the claim that the Bible is violent.2013 October 7, Giles Fraser, “How the Mail Got It Wrong, Again...”, in The Guardian. From the entry christian
• One edge case is when the code processing the message has not finished, but the invisibility window lapses, and another copy of the same message gets dequeued.2012, Bill Wilder, Cloud Architecture Patterns, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 32. From the entry edge case
• It took changes from Wenger and a rare defensive lapse from Everton before Arsenal finally turned the game around with two goals in the space of five minutes.2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2-1 Everton”, in BBC. From the entry turn around
• He's on the dry now but he told me he has had several lapses since we left muttering that it was all going to be different tomorrow.1985 August 24, Jeffrey Bernard, “Low life: High and dry”, in The Spectator, page 34. From the entry on the dry
• With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.1978 December 9, Pat M. Kuras, “A Splice of Lesbian Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 11. From the entry cantankerous
• Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake.1959 September, A.C. Hamilton, “Spenser's Treatment of Myth”, in ELH, volume 26, number 3. From the entry Achillean
• With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark' it.1954, Peter Russell, Nine. From the entry bebark
• Fàbregas is having a lapse in form and Costa seems so preoccupied with alpha-male aggro it possibly distracts him from the rather more important task of beating the opposition goalkeeper.2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian…. From the entry alpha male

Meaning of lapse

1. noun A temporary failure; a slip.
2. noun A decline or fall in standards.
3. noun A pause in continuity.

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Questions about lapse in a sentence

How do you use lapse in a sentence?

Lapse is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It was a regrettable lapse by a person of otherwise exemplary character.”

What is a short sentence with lapse?

“lapse in security”

What does lapse mean?

Lapse means a temporary failure; a slip.