Sentence examples for the lapsed from inspiring English sources
noun
A temporary failure; a slip.
But what a miraculous sprint, producing this minor miracle: the lapsed are listening.
He doesn't exist!" Colm Toibin is well attuned to the lapsed Protestant pilgrimage of his fellow Irishman.
Signed Next Issue talk story about snakes as pets... Regarding the emerging vogue among young moderns for snakes: The lapsed profile is fetishists.
"Telling the Bees," which opened at the Chocolate Factory on Wednesday night, takes its inspiration from the lapsed Northern European tradition of telling bees when their beekeeper died.
In 252 a renewed threat of persecution by the emperor Gallus encouraged a more speedy reintegration of the lapsed, because many now wanted to prove themselves as martyrs.
He is a more consistent finisher at the moment than David Villa — and much more than the lapsed, almost-forgotten Fernando Torres.
It is a beautiful article of faith, and Oscar night is like a religious holiday that even the lapsed and the skeptical can take part in.
So there's no reason to insist that other obsolete bureaux and offices of the lapsed era be brought along into the new one.
In his second book about the lapsed patrician lawyer Albert Schmidt, Louis Begley makes it clear that most of Schmidt's major adventures took place in the first one.
The lapsed Argentine idol, marginalized since FIFA forbade him from any involvement in soccer after his foul outburst in a broadcast news conference in November, is free to resume as Argentina's head coach this Friday.
And I loved having the playlist posted on the big flat screen on the wall, along with the lapsed-time dealie, just like on YouTube.
