Sentence Examples

1. An unhappy lapse of fortune and the absence of my protector have cast me down, certainly, but not forever.
2. Now, even if just for a momentary lapse, she had resumed the role.
3. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable.
4. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
5. The public papers immediately took up the theme, and the police were upon the point of making serious investigations, when, one fine morning, after the lapse of a week, Marie, in good health, but with a somewhat saddened air, made her re-appearance at her usual counter in the perfumery.
6. It had to have been some mistake, some lapse in his judgment.
7. Nearly four years had passed away at the end of the second he had ceased to mark the lapse of time.
8. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few scholars read, and a few scholars only are still reading it.
9. Her energy flow faltered, and she felt Alec wince from the lapse.
10. Then she would return, chilled through, to issue out again after the lapse of a few moments, but always in vain.