The Sinai was returned on time; the talks about the Palestinians lapsed, and the rest is history.
Reclusive and difficult to talk to, he occasionally lapsed into silences that lasted for days.
Mr. Miller said that Mr. Chandia was held as a material witness for several weeks in 2003 in connection with the Virginia jihad case but that talks to secure his cooperation lapsed when the government refused to offer him immunity.
In one section, Kelley indicts Oprah for having, on numerous occasions, "lapsed into potty talk".
As, feeling the fatigue of his day's adventures, he fell relatively silent, his companions lapsed into local talk — the newest mayoral scandal in Alton, the hopeless condition of the downtown, the misfortunes (illnesses, business misjudgments, ill-advised second marriages) of mutual friends.
The talking GPS on my dashboard has lapsed into silence, defeated by an arcane destination with no zip code.
"He ranted about the atrocities that had taken place in Bosnia," and lapsed into anti-Semitic tirades and talked at length about Hitler.
She even occasionally lapsed into a pronounced drawl, as in talking to "mah friends".
We Americans have lapsed into disgraceful complacency, allowing super PACs, talk-radio hosts and a hysterical 24-hour news culture to control the way we govern ourselves.
Signed Next Issue talk story about snakes as pets... Regarding the emerging vogue among young moderns for snakes: The lapsed profile is fetishists.
