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Meanings of lapse in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pass"
Examples for "pass"
1
Higher energy prices increase transport costs which farmers pass on to consumers.
2
YOUR boarding pass contains far, far more information than you might think.
3
The pass rate on the course so far is 80 per cent.
4
UK police have said officers will pass the investigation to Spanish authorities.
5
These people must pass certain background checks for possible past criminal convictions.
1
We sink in water; in air we tumble; on earth we stumble.
2
I find that the problem with math education is the sink-orswim approach.
3
It must let him fall and sink into the sea, he thought.
4
Until then, federal and state governments should be in 'kitchen sink' mode.
5
It's not as though public opinion of politics could sink any lower.
1
Two days must elapse before the steamer arrived; ample time for composition.
2
After the elapse of nearly 14 years, could this be a record?
3
In winter, months elapse without their seeing anybody from the outside world.
4
Two years, as they say in the playbills, is supposed to elapse.
5
An hour or two still had to elapse before the last scene.
1
The Houston story is too good to let it slip by undocumented.
2
They cross the Channel in their fishing-boats and slip by the warships.
3
I saw one slip by in the field, close to the road.
4
West Point would frown on him for letting that one slip by.
5
We watch the shoreline slip by as we near the harbor entrance.
1
When he looked up again he saw Vaughan's cruiser glide by outside.
2
Swans glide by with their signets, and we spot two flitting kingfishers.
3
How fast the years glide by, beginning in hope and ending in disappointment!
4
He whom your breath touches does not glide by the shelter of the bank.
5
We sit and watch this shore as we glide by with a placid delight.
1
A year ago, however, that name started to slip away from her.
2
Gregor watched us to make sure we didn't try to slip away.
3
At some point she felt Truitt slip away from her, lose consciousness.
4
Funny, people were always warning Taylor not to let Baldwin slip away.
5
She would not give up; would not let his life slip away.
1
Good Heaven; I thought you had been let go by the surgeons.
2
If new research is anything to go by then not so good.
3
At present 80 per cent of Dubliners don't go by public transport.
4
If the last year is anything to go by, neither much listened.
5
You can travel north beyond the ice, if you go by water.
1
So the years slide by into decades and still Galway wait on.
2
Analysts expect prices to slide by another 10 percent by early next year.
3
I let the obligatory 10 working days slide by and then emailed Comreg.
4
It was never his nature to let an opportunity slide by.
5
China saw investment banking fees slide by a quarter in 2011.
1
Eisenhower at the summit: 'What U-Twos?' We'll go along; no preliminary summation.
2
There are details we'll need to work out as we go along.
3
Caveolinopathies often go along with increased CK levels indicative of sarcolemmal damage.
4
Anybody interested in going to the tournament should go along, he said.
5
It's a valid point and my thoughts go along the same lines.
Usage of lapse in English
1
The problem is when the memory lapse results in a serious outcome.
2
Lockup commitments, typically of three years, begin to lapse later this year.
3
However, if your relationship ends, your South African Spousal Permit will lapse.
4
Domestic violence is not about anger or a temporary lapse of control.
5
Why didn't things simply lapse back to the way they'd always been?
6
Watch a time lapse film of the new insurance HQ being built.
7
This time-lapse footage shows the two-month repair effort in just two minutes.
8
After that its right to return to the panel proceedings would lapse.
9
Through lapse of time the few claim the inheritance of the many.
10
In the lapse of ages Nothing coalesced into Unity, the Great Monad.
11
It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.
12
Have a look at some of his other time-lapse video work here.
13
The lapse of ages has not rendered us wiser in this respect.
14
This time-lapse footage shows how engineers managed to get the job done.
15
A new time-lapse video of SpaceX's Starship was shared Space Padre Isle.
16
Important football games flashed by like time-lapse summaries of the passing years.
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Lapse through the time
Lapse across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common