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Meanings of lapse into in English

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Usage of lapse into in English
1
For Faust and Margaret the lapse into the lower forms brings tragedy.
Among Famous Books
2
And it was probably a lapse into decadent habits on his part.
Changer of Worlds
3
I will not dwell upon my lapse into desperate and outrageous sorrow.
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
4
He seemed to lapse into a greater intimacy of feeling with Colville.
Indian Summer
5
Sir Walter regarded this lapse into silence and indifference as highly alarming.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
6
Why did this pale English quartet regularly lapse into black soul-music phrasing?
BBC
7
These are my secondary reasons for suspecting a lapse into barbarianism.'
Strata
8
Not many people check their watches before they lapse into a drunken coma.
Mortal Allies
9
She suspected the meaning of that sudden, fierce lapse into rudeness.
From the Housetops
10
This proclamation can never be annulled and lapse into dusty archives.
Germany, The Next Republic?
11
I don't wonder that people lapse into semi-barbarism in the backwoods.
North of Fifty-Three
12
In writing it, Raban was determined not to lapse into a mid-Atlantic accent.
The Guardian
13
They didn't lapse into a terminal coma at the end of their suffering.
Patient Zero
14
Confounded by this lapse into banality, Conseil left his sentence hanging.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
15
In moments of great despair we don't lapse into pensive contemplation.
Mike Fletcher: A Novel
16
She had scarcely expected, however, that this lapse into youth would occur to-night.
The Wild Olive: A Novel
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Lapse into through the time
Lapse into across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common