Sentence examples for it lapsed from inspiring English sources
After the Restoration, the Licensing Act of 1662 was ruthlessly enforced until after the Great Plague of 1664 65, when its rigours were mitigated; it lapsed in 1679.
During the 19th century some enterprising Yankees did a profitable business hauling guano from the atoll, but otherwise it lapsed into oblivion, except for some bickerings about its ownership among the British, ourselves, and King Kamehaheba IV of Hawaii.
It lapsed in other ways as well.
Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.
A treaty in Europe required countries to limit dual citizenship, until it lapsed in the 1990s.
Congress let it lapse when it expired in 1999.
Debate persists over whether to extend the law, revamp it or simply let it lapse.
Developers forced to build within two years of gaining planning permission, or see it lapse.
Is this what I was leaving when I decided last summer to let it lapse?
For decades, it clung tenuously to life, barely preserved by a couple of distilleries that would not let it lapse.
