How to Use lap in a Sentence

lap

1 of 2 noun

• The race was red-flagged for 15 minutes to clean up the track with eight laps to go.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• The elephant isn’t just in the room, it’s sprawled across both of your laps, singing show tunes.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• One of them hurled a fish at the audience—Suzy Menkes, then the doyen of The Times, caught it in her lap.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
• Some people run laps on the track or hike a few miles over the weekend, but me?
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2024
• One lap is for Mercury, two are for Venus and three are for Earth, etc.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• The men gave them lap dances and showed off their abs, which left the women swooning.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
• But even a year early, the trek is a victory lap for the band.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
• The whole thing is stable on your lap and very well-balanced.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2023
• Guests can then wind down with a drink beside the garden lap pool or in the Guinguette café.
  — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
• Rose and Jones were running side-by-side with about 16 laps to go when Rose spun around.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• That means Last Week Tonight got two victory laps in the same week.
  — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
• Midgette saw a man sitting on his porch with a rifle in his lap.
  — Ames Alexander and, Charlotte Observer, 3 May 2024
• The first caution in nearly 200 laps came moments from the white flag.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2024
• The breed is known for enjoying warm laps, not the great outdoors.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• And Gromit was just so chill on Chris's lap while Chris was rolling calls, planning out the season.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• The top seven drivers turned laps faster than Tagliani's record, and 18 topped last year's pole lap.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2023
• Her eyes were half open, lips parted, hands in her lap and upturned.
  — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Lay your infant or child across your lap and on their stomach.
  — Leah Groth, Health, 20 Sep. 2023
• Bourne had to run a lap for making a mistake during 11-on-11 drills.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• In the blurry clip, a woman with brown, wavy hair can be seen with a child on her lap in the background of karaoke at the reception.
  — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
• Montoya led the points from the season-opening race right until the final lap.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The White House was quick to take a victory lap afterward.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
• The Wave Waterpark has water slides, a lazy river, lap pools and tot play area.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Bryant and her daughter match in red sweatsuits, with the proud mom holding her daughter on her lap.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• In the cute snap, Cuoco held Matilda in her lap on the plane as the little one sported a pair of large headphones over her ears.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• In both of the images, Ella can be seen smiling at the camera while sitting on her dad's lap.
  — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
• The daughter places the pillow on her mother’s lap and guides her mother’s hand over a large yellow patch.
  — Kat McGowan, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
• Table rubbed his right arm, felt beautiful, said her name to his lap.
  — Hazlitt, 14 June 2023
• That was Hoke’s first lap holding the reins after the disastrous three-season run of Chuck Long.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• When Donohue came into the pits after his record laps, the back of the car was literally on fire.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023

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lap

2 of 2 verb

• The audience lapped it up, both in the room and back home.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
• Both the crowd and the internal Waystar crew lap it up.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 May 2023
• As the waves lapped lightly, the canopy of stars stretched out before me.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
• But these tidal forces aren’t supposed to lap the shores of places like New York.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• The frigid sea lapped at the shores of Tee Harbor, about 15 miles northwest of Juneau.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Both are there to lap up the celebration, as well as to take the stage.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• There's a player who has the same look who laps fives with Booker.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• The floodwaters lap against the levee banks and from there stretch miles to the horizon.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The small waves, cold and gentle, lapped my ankles, then my calves, then my thighs.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
• The clearest blue waves rolled in and out, crashing onto the sand as the water lapped at my toes.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• At high tide, the ocean waves lap up against the dune, which itself is badly eroded.
  — By wayne Parry, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• To your left, imagine the East River lapping at your feet.
  — Russell Shorto, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The sound of lapping waves and the call of seagulls mixed with a steady whirring of the port’s machinery as rain began to fall.
  — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Its gin-clear waters that lap up against white-sand beaches will leave you in awe.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
• Spring in this beach town brings long, lazy hours on a lounge chair, reading a good book and watching the waves lap onto the sand.
  — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• They were found hugging each other close as the water lapped around them.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Now retired, Neville said the building boom and growth have brought more traffic and even changed the way the water used to lap up against the sea wall.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
• Conner lapped the field as state runner-up Louisville St. Xavier finished with 154 points.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 16 June 2023
• In one of its final scenes, Shinji sits quietly on a beach as waves lap against the shore.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2021
• On the other hand, Saban has lapped the field and is coming back around on first-round picks by SEC coaches.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 14 Apr. 2023
• Americans in their 20s and 30s nowadays have a lot of spare parental love in their hearts — and their dogs are lapping it up.
  — Sam Apple, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Would her unprotected feet leave a faint trail of blood across the dining-room floor for the cat to lap up with its clean, pink tongue?
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
• Madonna is lapping up the last days of summer with her children.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• Video shot from an inflatable boat showed a man in the boat holding on to the side of a house as water lapped the walls just beneath a pitched roof.
  — Matthew Mulligan, NBC News, 8 June 2023
• Once flying free, the spacecraft was meant to lap around the world, ending with a crash-landing in the Pacific near Hawaii.
  — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The crayfish are still walking, the seagulls are flying, the cats are meowing, and the waves are lapping.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• Johnson’s fans should lap this one up, along with the duck à l’orange served in the French hospital cafeteria.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2021
• The depleted version may not lap the AL West field as we've been accustomed.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023
• Listen as the Gulf waters gently lap at the land behind you and savor a peaceful moment in the Texas heat.
  — Prabha Kannan, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2021
• Waves lap gently on the white sand nearby, and black, brown and white butterflies flit among its branches.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024