9 example sentences using lapse.
Lapse used in a sentence
Lapse in a sentence as a noun
Sounds like a serious lapse of "dance with the one who brung ya" to me.
Wow, this is a really big lapse of judgement on Quora's part.
A lapse in any of those payments can result in what is called a "writ" being issued.
I've been lapse at updating it in the past few months, but normal service shall resume very shortly...
It's an interesting genre, the time-lapse while pan in HD with hyperbolic music.
Lapse in a sentence as a verb
Poor Allan had a pretty significant lapse of judgment, and DHH may have given him the most valuable lesson of his life.
The idea that these are the problems whose solution drives us forwards is just a monumental lapse of creativity.
Ordinary people don't live in the kind of circumstances where they might wander into a felony conviction from a minor lapse in judgment.
A peculiarity of local geography is that we find that the two Costco stores at our end of the Twin Cities metropolitan area are just never on our way to anywhere else, so we let our Costco membership lapse after just one year.
Lapse definitions
a mistake resulting from inattention
See also: oversight
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
a failure to maintain a higher state
See also: backsliding lapsing relapse relapsing reversion reverting
end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
See also: backslide
go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
See also: relapse recidivate regress retrogress
let slip; "He lapsed his membership"