How to Use lapse into in a Sentence

lapse into

phrasal verb

• To put the time lapsed into further perspective, Mourning is now 53, Hardaway 56.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• The meat has a heavy weighting in the basket of food prices, which was a big contributor to July’s lapse into consumer deflation.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• But—as the frankly silly breadsticks foreshadowed—the pomp of the place never lapses into tedium.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
• The low-key look is fine by us, but California four-by aficionados will probably lapse into chrome withdrawal.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 1 July 2023
• Musk would often lapse into long reflective reveries, and the biographer would learn not to interrupt.
  — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• There have been various points, in all of those incarnations, when Chelsea has veered perilously close to lapsing into self-parody.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Back on the homefront, Zora lapses into blathering self-absorption and even Billie, the nurse, comments on her need to devote more quality time to her daughter.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Ruscha made drawings using gunpowder and paintings of maple syrup and beans, but few image-makers have so rarely lapsed into gimmickry, and even fewer have got such consistent laughs.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the following days his mind lapsed into confusion, yet his secretary faithfully recorded his words.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
• During groupthink, members lapse into consensus thinking and agree with each other rather than bringing more ideas forward.
  — Lorraine Dowler, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2023
• Despite a few lapses into lumpy melodrama, Yamazki’s thoughtful script holds firm and is dotted with delightful humor at just the right moments.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• Amazon announced a new conversation mode for its Alexa speakers using cutting edge chatbot tech; in an onstage demonstration, the tool lapsed into long pauses between answers.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• But if its sympathies and its politics are unsurprising, the movie itself seldom lapses into obviousness.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• With Ukrainian officials anxious that an unimpressive counteroffensive might undercut their case for further aid, Cleverly urged Washington not to lapse into war fatigue.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
• This dark and princely look occasionally lapsed into the apparently primitive and absolutely primal.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 July 2023
• The movie falters here and there, lapsing into sentimentality—with accompanying gushy music—during a wedding scene, and that in-person confrontation between Monk and Sintara happens only because Jefferson has overcomplicated the story’s plot.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Dec. 2023
• This series respects Asimov's sweeping visionary ideas without lapsing into slavish reverence and over-pontification.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023
• Unlike all his predecessors going back to Franklin Roosevelt, Trump appears to be an inveterate isolationist who occasionally lapses into martial fantasies about exterminating terrorists.
  — Jonathan Kay, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024