Sentence examples for something lapsed from inspiring English sources

Still, this kind of language is something lapsed Catholics, like me, have wanted virtually forever: a gesture, seemingly, toward real confession.

"We want to reactivate people who played and loved Draw Something 1 but lapsed," Travis Boatman, a senior vice president of mobile at Zynga, said in an interview at the company's New York headquarters.

She's some sort of lapsed something.

Simply look at them for a moment, showing in your expression that you know you did something wrong or lapsed in judgment.

In the past, when the economy came down with a cold, the classic-car market lapsed into something close to pneumonia.

I'm not sure it's something that will bring lapsed players back to the platform, but it's bound to be great for retaining existing fans.

(Shades of "Some Like It Hot" and "Twentieth Century": when train travel lapsed in America, something died in the national sense of humor).

Although my Catholicism remains resolutely lapsed, it was something I could relate to in a wider sense, and I found myself photographing some spilt milk on a Jerusalem street and an oil stain I saw in Bethlehem.

Stray remarks about the theater tend to be excuses to talk about something else, lapses in memory, for example ("Gary Fonda in 'The Grapes of Noon'?"), or "the incoherence and manifold nature of what used to be considered the individual self".

Presumably, Myspace wanted this rare log-in to serve as something of an epiphany to me, and lapsed users like me: Oh look, Myspace is here!

In his attempts to convey the rapture of his feelings, Shelley lapsed into self-parody and later found the poem something of an embarrassment.