were lapsing
- past progressive of lapse.
Example Sentences
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Kalyn Lee, who is black, and Ben Ramos, who second generation Mexican American, were lapsing their childhood faiths.
From Time ● Sep. 26, 2014
Moreover, during the same time period, patents on many of the major new antidepressants were lapsing, starting with Prozac in 2001.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2012
Meantime, the farms were less carefully tended than of old: here and there they were lapsing into their natural wildness: some villas also were partly fallen into ruin.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter
The Presbyterians were rapidly losing their old standing, and were lapsing into the ranks of Unitarianism.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
And the curious rolling of the eyes, as if she were lapsing in a trance away from her ordinary consciousness became habitual with her, when something threatened and opposed her in life, the conscious life.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
