How to Use lapse in a Sentence

lapse

1 of 2 noun

• He blamed the error on a minor mental lapse.
• That could be seen as a lapse in his performance, but come on.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 17 July 2023
• None have met that target, and the agreement lapses in 2025.
  — Bianca Nogrady, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2023
• The film shows the lapse in time, from the rush of deep powder in the depths of winter to the pinnacle terrain of Alaska in the spring.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• San Diego Wave coach Casey Stoney said the team’s first-half lapses were too much to overcome.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• The timeline aims to give the chamber enough time to work with the House to avoid a lapse in government funding.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The glaring special-teams lapse was one of three Sunday.
  — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
• Having a lapse shouldn't be viewed as a failure or used as an excuse to give up.
  — Ian Hamilton, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2022
• Their mental lapses since the All-Star break may have cost them the No. 1 seed, but they can’t be concerned with that now.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• There is a lot of hearsay in this letter and a 25-year lapse in collection efforts seems odd.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
• The lapse allowed the threat actor to maintain access to the service account for more than two weeks.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• But a large share of the disdain for the court stems from its blatant ethical lapses.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
• More agencies would see their funding lapse if a bill is not signed into law by Feb. 2.
  — Jordan Fabian, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2024
• But road lapses at Tennessee and at LSU helped sink the season.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• But a lapse in discipline by Leon Draisaitl cost the Oilers.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Hardman can be forgiven for the lapse after a season that must have seemed like a fever dream.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The lapse will limit the program’s ability to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to pay out claims after a flood.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Despite all your research and planning, there can be a lapse of judgment.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Passage of the bill, just hours ahead of Saturday’s 12:01 a.m. shutdown deadline, set off a sprint in the Senate to avert a lapse in funding.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Defensive lapses and mistakes had allowed the Bulldogs easy looks at the basket much of the night.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2023
• The game was tied at halftime at 34 largely due to defensive lapses by Texas.
  — Mark Rosner, ajc, 18 Feb. 2023
• Further, each training lapse is cause for a Form 483 if found during an audit.
  — Matt Lowe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The lapses in enforcement have not been limited to Philips.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• In a concurrent opinion, one of the judges raised potential ethical lapses by Winker in the case.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• But that sense of defeat is only a momentary lapse before a fiery comeback.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
• But a quiet night from their offense and late bullpen lapse produced a too-familiar result.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2023
• Lines securing a ballast to the vessel are designed to come apart after 24 hours lapse, Newman told the outlet.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• In another lapse of logic, the climate system's controls are split by the radio.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
• Nearly every six days in the U.S., a child is killed amid a custody dispute, family court lapse, or other mishaps.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• The Canadian wild fires are still wreaking havoc on the East Coast, with some jarring photos and time lapse videos painting a picture of how the smoke is taking over the city.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2023

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lapse

2 of 2 verb

• He forgot to renew his driver's license, so it lapsed.
• After a few polite words the conversation lapsed.
• She allowed the magazine subscription to lapse.
• She didn't pay the premium and her life insurance policy lapsed.
• Her interest in politics lapsed while she was in medical school.
• The rights to the music were about to lapse, for Paramount, which had the movie at the time.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• But now cities are starting to allow the fee caps to lapse.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
• The House passed the measure less than 12 hours before funding was set to lapse.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2022
• But borrowers could soon be on the hook again, with the moratorium set to lapse at the end of the month.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
• And promises do not lapse simply because the promisee has died.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• The agency didn’t change the time that should lapse before getting an extra dose of one of those shots.
  — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• That status was allowed to lapse at the end of January.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 May 2023
• Money is set to lapse Jan. 19 for some agencies and Feb. 2 for others.
  — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• Funding is set to lapse Jan. 19 for some agencies and Feb. 2 for others.
  — South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• Because when they’re allowed to lapse, then production moves out of the state.
  — Keli Goff, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
• Then, as those programs lapsed, demand began to climb again.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Melvin’s contract with NBCUniversal is believed to lapse at the end of 2022.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
• Many provisions from that law are set to lapse at the end of 2025, and Mr. Haislmaier said that timing could lead to horse-trading between the parties.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The policy is set to lapse when the public health emergency is lifted on May 11.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• For 15 minutes, mother and daughter spoke as if no time had lapsed between them.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The business’s permits have lapsed and the owners did not seek to renew them, and the phone number listed on ADEM records is no longer in service.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 4 Mar. 2023
• The previous agreements were set to lapse last year, but both sides agreed to a one-year extension as the pandemic took hold.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2021
• But no matter what the feeling, with the omicron surge in the rearview mirror, mask mandates will lapse on Monday in Illinois and Chicago.
  — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2022
• The assault weapons ban lapsed in 2004 and lawmakers have lacked the votes for the last decade to bring back the measure that statistically saved hundreds of lives.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 16 June 2023
• The debt ceiling caps the amount of borrowing that can be authorized, and its suspension in 2019 lapsed in August.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• These authorizations lapse when the state of emergency ends.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 31 Oct. 2021
• It’s that rare comedy that, to me, did not lapse into self-parody by season 6 or 7.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• The contract had been set to lapse 12 hours earlier, but was extended by half a day as talks continued.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Funding begins to lapse on Jan. 20, with a full shutdown impending on Feb. 3.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
• Families could get monthly payments of as much as $300 per child as part of the expansion, which lapsed after one year.
  — Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024