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

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

  • He also said their instincts is to get back to work and if they allow their working out to lapse too long then bad things my start to happen.  - Hooked: Muscle Women
  • Velayudan triggers problems one after the other and every new lapse help only to put fresh chains.  - Iruttinte Athmavu
  • In a moment of forgiveable lapse brought about his fear of corpses, Morse does not recognise the murderer and allows him to walk free.  - The Riddle of the Third Mile
  • She leads Zack and Alex into a strong first performance in the nationals, but a lapse in Zack's concentration causes Alex to fall.  - The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream
  • Everybody in the town continues with their daily lives after a short lapse of time apart from Professor Laurana.  - To Each His Own (novel)
  • She eventually rejects Harry's lapse back to materialism and flees to the commune, refusing to see him.  - Bliss (1985 film)
  • The others begin to show signs of infection, and eventually they lapse into animalistic behavior.  - I Drink Your Blood
  • Over a period of several generations and cut off from resupply, the colonists lapse into a primitive lifestyle.  - Forty Thousand in Gehenna
  • This leads the Krool hybrid to lapse into insanity while Kano's human brain assumes dominance over the implanted Krool half-brain.  - Bad Company (comics)
  • When it attacked her, it began the takeover process (hence her lapse in memory); however, she managed to get away in time.  - Aquiel
  • Then follows the leprosy of Amis, and, after a lapse of years, his discovery of Amiles and cure.  - Amis et Amiles
  • However Kitty is already on her way out the door, her momentary lapse of character wiped from memory.  - The Hours (novel)
  • Fin tries to protect Emily from her boyfriend at a bar, but he pushes Fin aside, causing Fin to lapse back into his asocial behavior.  - The Station Agent
  • What she had once believed was a vulgar attempt to seduce Angelica was really a momentary lapse of judgment.  - The Leopard
  • However, she finds it easy to lapse back into a pattern of drinking and irresponsibility.  - Once Were Warriors
  • The first part of the book covers the 17 years in the lives of this group of friends after Karen’s lapse into a coma.  - Girlfriend in a Coma (novel)

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