Example Sentences

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Now that the three-year periods are lapsing, the rents are rising again�and Genesco is saddled with mounting costs.

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

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

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