Sentence examples for elapses from inspiring English sources

"elapses" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is primarily used as a verb meaning to pass by or to pass away. Example sentence: The days elapse quickly when you're having fun.

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elapses

verb

Third person singular of elapse

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However, it's generally advised that some time elapses before a friendship is renewed, as the post-break-up period is inevitably emotionally overwrought.

That reflection indicates the presence of an object and the time that elapses between the sound's being emitted and its being detected indicates how far away it is.

Mr Abbas's Palestinians, who insist that two of the biggest issues redrawing the borders of the would-be states and arranging their security—should be tackled first, say the talks have got nowhere.They are especially concerned that Mr Netanyahu should extend his freeze on the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank after the promised ten-month period elapses in September.

Einstein was the first to jot down what now seems so obvious that the Universe should be considered as a continuum with both spatial and temporal dimensions.All this adds up to the awkward fact awkward for prognosticators, anyway that the time that elapses between two events will depend on the motion of the observer.

Cheered every time he walks out to bat and lauded as he departs, his problem is, as Vic Marks succinctly put it in the Guardian "that the time that elapses between his standing ovations is reducing with every innings".Even if doesn't happen in this series, it seems inevitable that Mr Tendulkar, now 38 years old, will reach his milestone at some point.

The other is the time that elapses between the moment that one person stops speaking and another starts.

For prisoners who are actually put to death, the average time that elapses between sentence and execution has risen from six years in the mid-1980s to 16.5 years now.

The technique is based on determinations of the time interval that elapses between the initiation of a seismic wave at a selected shop point and the arrival of reflected or refracted impulses at one or more seismic detectors.

The time that elapses before the particle is stopped ranges from a few picoseconds (1 × 10−12 second) in solids or liquids to a few nanoseconds (1 × 10−9 second) in gases.

In this model a particle moving close to the speed of light would, according to a distant observer, almost catch up with the photons it emits, so that the duration of time that elapses between an earlier emission event and a later one is systematically underestimated by the observer (compared with one moving with the beam).

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Shooting in real time the 72-minute running time matches the amount of fictional time that elapses also added to the sense of authenticity of the film, which, counterintuitively, was based on a long narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March.

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