Sentence examples for were lapsing from inspiring English sources

Deadlines were lapsing and Putin's guests began asking questions about the odd location.

And at the end of the study, they were lapsing fives times as much as they did the first day.

Meanwhile, Basil tried to secure general support for the former semi-Arian Meletius as bishop of Antioch (one of the five major patriarchates of the early church), against Paulinus, the leader of the strict Nicene minority, since he feared that the extreme Nicenes at this point were lapsing into Sabellianism, a heresy exaggerating the oneness of God.

Asphyxiation doesn't seem likely, because Andrée had wrapped his first diary in sedge grass (which the men used to insulate their boots) and placed it at his back, against the rock, as if wishing to be sure it was preserved, a gesture that he would be unable to make if he were lapsing abruptly into unconsciousness.

Anastasia's parents were lapsed Jews living in Boston.

Many of you were lapsed readers; many had switched over from quality titles other than The Independent.

I can tell when I am lapsing into transference.

I can see whether accounts are lapsing and what kind.

Meanwhile, operating systems are lapsing into senile irrelevance.

Less than a decade ago, the N.H.L. was thought to be lapsing into obscurity.

Newspaper subscriptions are lapsing, he argued, because readers have tired of liberal bias.