Sentence example with the word 'lapsing'

lapsing

Definition n. a failure to maintain a higher state

Last update: August 29, 2015


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Of the metals, the production of copper is a lapsing industry, confined to Cornwall.   [Please select]

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Na, na, neighbours," said the Dominie, lapsing into dialect, "we daurna luik for a prize.   [Please select]

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Instead of which he seemed lapsing more and more into reiterated assurances of devotion and the flat competent discharge of humanitarian duties.   [Please select]

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She felt frozen, her limbs were like lead, and her mind was wandering, or lapsing into unconsciousness.   [Please select]

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"'The Lord is my shepherd,'" said my father, lapsing into verse.   [Please select]

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Hans replied to this sally with great vigor, lapsing into Dutch.   [Please select]

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"To hell with the girl," growled Dick, lapsing abruptly from his expansive mood.   [Please select]

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"Jibiwánisi has looked into my heart," she replied, lapsing into the Indian rhetoric of deep emotion.   [Please select]

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The big boys were wrestling in the yard; men were lounging on the rude seats, inside, idly discussing crops and cattle and lapsing into silence, frequently, that bore the signs both of expectancy and reflection.   [Please select]

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The young man stared at him, roused by Blood's pregnant tone out of the mental lethargy into which he had of late been lapsing as a result of the dehumanizing life he lived.   [Please select]

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