How to use "elapse" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "elapse" in popular movie and book plots

  • Three years elapse and Ruth dies of an illness, leaving a baby in the poet's care.  - The Temple of Dusk
  • Finn and Jake partially enter the bubble, where five hours elapse in real time.  - Time Sandwich
  • Gwen is sent to elapse to the year 1948, the same year as the London Olympic Games, in order to fulfill her quota of time travel for the day.  - Ruby Red Trilogy
  • He says that if she displeases him, he will allow that time to elapse and she will vanish.  - Crossing Midnight
  • Six months elapse with Romans and Cleopatra besieged in the palace in Alexandria.  - Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
  • It will be a five-million-year journey, though only a thousand years will elapse on board, due to relativistic time dilation effects.  - Ring (Baxter novel)
  • Almost entirely through luck, Mandella survives four years of military service, while several centuries elapse in real time.  - The Forever War

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