Sentence examples for sad lapse from inspiring English sources

Ross was suspended from the BBC, thousands of column inches were devoted to his poor taste and his estimated £6m salary and the sad lapse in Auntie's standards.

His puckish air of belligerent naughtiness, indulged in the decades of the 50s, 60s and 70s, especially in such exuberantly rude forays into literary criticism as his Cambridge and Oxford lectures, lapsed into a sad inertness.

A stupid lapse by the captain, and a sad loss for Guinea, who, though they'll certainly batter Namibia, are unlikely to progress beyond the quarter-final without him.

We lapse into silence.

A common lapse.

I regret this lapse.

A surprisingly common lapse.

Sad, sad day".

Sad bookworms such as me, with rows of ragged volumes of Hegel and Marx on our shelves, will find plenty of well-made points in these pages, but many readers may find themselves lapsing into baffled torpor.

Sad, so sad.

She let her subscription lapse.