Example Sentences
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Lapses in tone and language choices make the writing unsuited to the audience and purpose.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Lapses in research aren’t necessarily sexist in nature.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2020
The artist, from Alnwick, Northumberland, is nominated for her solo exhibition Lapses in Thinking by the Person I am at CCA Wattis in San Francisco.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2016
Lapses in Fire Safety All that is left of the house at 1534 State Route 30 in the Adirondack town of Wells is a grassy field and an empty driveway.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2011
Such Lapses are not unprecedented among the Poets; and will the more readily admit of an Excuse, when the Voice of History is followed in the Description of Characters.
From The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy by Moses, Montrose Jonas