lapsed in English
a lapsed insurance policy
my membership to the gym has lapsed
the country has lapsed into chaos
Use "lapsed" in a sentence
1. 22 She calls herself a lapsed Catholic.
2. Some have even lapsed into postfeminist inaction.
3. 2 Just imagine —Jehovah’s covenant people have lapsed into apostasy!
4. Without my prompting, Jack often lapsed into silence.
5. His anger lapsed, and the numbness of bewilderment returned.
6. 27 After dinner, Kate lapsed into a glum silence .
7. 2 Having lapsed into complete incoherence, he fell silent.
8. 5 She muttered something unintelligible and lapsed into silence.
9. He lapsed into a coma and died four days later.
10. 11 After a sudden burst of activity, the team lapsed back into indolence.
11. 3 She lapsed into inertia and lay there as if asleep.
12. After his young daughter died of cancer, Hopper divorced and lapsed into alcoholism.
13. Under considerable temperature stress (heat and cold) the control of heart activity lapsed (Figs.
14. 9 From the twelfth century onwards, this imperial system col-lapsed.
15. The first Act to abolish Chantries, in 15 had lapsed before it could take effect.
16. Having lapsed from grace, he tried every means to win back favour again.
17. We all stared solemnly at the ground in front of us as conversation lapsed.
18. 26 She calls herself a lapsed Catholic who once wanted to be a nun.
19. Synonyms for Bated include ebbed, lessened, waned, aBated, moderated, slackened, lapsed, eased, checked and curbed
20. At the restaurant, he ate one piece, then lapsed into a kind of daze.
21. This timeframe implies a legally effective deadline after which his claims against possible usurpers would have lapsed.
22. After her service in the White House and her lapsed judicial nomination, Kagan returned to academia in 1999.
23. As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
24. New products and production processes are transferred to the developing countries only after a substantial amount of time has lapsed.
25. Once accepted, the Caregiver may have to renew their registration occasionally and cannot assist a patient if the registration has lapsed
26. Its present interventionist role is insufficiently discriminating: it has all too often lapsed readily into a posture of actively balancing Communalisms.
27. Michael Cobb introduced private member's bills in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 to ban desecration, but on each occasion the bill lapsed.
28. As a lapsed biologist, I decided to immediately call a real biologist, my friend Simon Levin, Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Princeton University.
29. There was some fatal flaw in his makeup,(Sentencedict.com) and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
30. The creation of Baronetcies lapsed in 1964; in 1990 the Conservative Government announced that this honour would be given to Denis Thatcher, but there have been no further creations
31. The study of vacuum then lapsed until 1855, when Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump and achieved a record vacuum of about 10 Pa (0.1 Torr).
32. As to be expected at events in any industry, executives at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show last week lapsed into lazy talk – Bandying about vague notions such as “customer centric
33. The list includes established Breeds recognized by various cat registries, new and experimental Breeds, landraces being established as standardized Breeds, distinct domestic populations not being actively developed and lapsed (extinct) Breeds.
34. He would have stopped all work to beg for extra pay at the merest suggestion of such a thing; but as it was he raised both fists and lapsed into his own tongue to Apostrophize the ruffian who dared jostle King.
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36. In that case, the Council, acting unanimously, shall decide immediately upon such adjustments as have become indispensable to this Treaty, to Articles 10, 11(2), 12, 21(1), 22, 31, 34 and 46, Annex III, point 2(1)(b), 2(2) and 2(3) and Annex IV, section B, of the Protocol referred to in Article 1(3) and, as the case may be, to Articles 9 to 11, 14(3), 15, 24(1), 31, 34, 46 and 47, Annex III, point 2(1)(b), 2(2) and 2(3) and Annex IV, section B, of the Act referred to in Article 2(2); acting unanimously, it may also declare that those provisions of the aforementioned Protocol, including its Annexes and Appendices and, as the case may be, of the aforementioned Act, including its Annexes and Appendices, which refer expressly to a State which has not deposited its instrument of ratification have lapsed, or it may adjust them.