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 brief, closing sentence was spoken as if she were lapsing into reverie.

From The Allen House by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Ursula, left alone, felt as if everything were lapsing out.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)