are lapsing
- present progressive of lapse.
Example Sentences
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Fearful of losing out on tenure or research grants by taking the "wrong" stand on the issue, some junior researchers are lapsing into monklike silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's all we ever hear," complains Third Baseman Doug DeCinces, 36, one of eight veterans whose contracts are lapsing.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are marching on, keeping step with civilization and human progress; or they are lapsing back toward barbarism and darkness.
From Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root by Bacon, Robert
Annually the leases are lapsing, and piles of building bricks begin to appear in grounds once verdant with close-cut lawn grass, and copsed with roses and rhododendrons.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
Lands once under high cultivation are lapsing into jungle.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony
