Sentence examples for lagged dangerously from inspiring English sources

In front of a packed and deafening crowd, expectant for Rebecca Adlington's appearance in the 800m freestyle, the race immediately following his own, Phelps started poorly and lagged dangerously in the first half of the race but swam a remarkable final 50m to come from seventh position at the turn to win the race in 51.21sec.

There is no easy answer, given that most states lag dangerously behind Tamil Nadu even in prevention efforts.

An idea to the effect that the traditional Communist manual workers should be united with the new educated technical and scientific workers in modern French industry, the result being that Party membership, which had lately been lagging dangerously would be greatly increased.

But institutions and governments are also lagging dangerously behind, not least because mobile and social undermine traditional hierarchies and decision-making processes.

Republicans who participated in the post-debate conference call Monday morning are becoming increasingly worried about their chances of holding on to their 30-seat House majority as Trump lags dangerously behind Clinton in the polls.

Conversation lagged.

Faulkner lagged slightly behind.

Despite his not-inconsiderable experience in government, Mr. Huntsman has lagged in fund-raising and has had difficulty breaking out of the bottom rung of Republican contenders; at times, his poll numbers have fallen dangerously close to the threshold at which he would no longer be invited to Republican debates.

Projects lagged behind schedule.

O'Brien has lagged.

But the playing lagged.