Sentence examples for to lapse from inspiring English sources

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to lapse

noun

A temporary failure; a slip.

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(Democrats allowed it to lapse in December).

Mr. Schily urged his countrymen not "to lapse into panic".

See how easy it is to lapse into this vacuousness.

Mr. Howard's temptation is to lapse into cartoonish stereotyping.

Any temporary measures will eventually need to lapse, of course.

It appeared to give conversational answers, although it could be led to lapse into obtuse nonsense.

Dehydration leads them to lapse into comas and die peacefully, doctors said.

The government has said it will allow the levy to lapse next year, as originally legislated.

It's all too easy to lapse into an 'out of sight, out of mind' approach".

Wales had hoped to hurt England here, only to lapse into blanket defence.

A teacher from Shipley in West Yorkshire, he had allowed his Irish passport to lapse.

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