Sentence examples for dreadful lapse from inspiring English sources
I have to confess to a dreadful lapse of memory and judgement.
The pre-match talk had been about the need to maintain the defensive focus but the concession to Najar represented yet another dreadful lapse.
I've always regretted the dreadful lapse in judgment and put it right up there with my decision not to buy a ticket for the closing matinee of the original Long Day's Journey Into Night production.
I'm hardly naïve about the existence of police abuse, whether in New York (where Mr. Kelly has had some dreadful lapses) or elsewhere.
Click here to view One of Gob's many recurring catchphrases, uttered after one of his frequent, dreadful lapses in judgment: splitting up with his attractive girlfriend, realising that he has an illegitimate son, locking himself in his father's prison cell, etc. Reading this on mobile?
("The Creation was the first item on the divine agenda, before God went on to organize dreadful weather for the English and in a calamitous lapse of attention allowed Michael Jackson to slip into existence").
One of the particularly absurd arguments against allowing gays to marry is that such a lapse would send us skidding down that dreadful slope to legalization of incest, polygamy, bestiality and so forth.
Even so, a dreadful World Cup campaign must not be reclassified as an unfortunate lapse.
Newman and Mittelmark make up typical examples of dreadful prose, often so accurately that even the vainest are likely to recognise their own howlers and lapses of taste.
