How to Use lapsed in a Sentence

lapsed

adjective

• Or, to be more accurate, to his enduring status as a lapsed Catholic.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• One frequent witness is a lapsed plastic surgeon who runs a Botox clinic out of a strip mall next to a Pizza Hut.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2023
• That combination of aggressiveness and lapsed judgment — the Twins left fielder should know the left-field ground rules — could cost the Twins big in a short series.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
• The lapsed unemployment benefit is a major sticking point in the talks.
  — Erica Werner, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• So, this is a smart way to draw in lapsed or very occasional players (like me) who might be interested in trying a new legend for the first time.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• But new features alone probably aren’t going to lure back lapsed subscribers, who should be the company’s prime target.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 3 July 2020
• Sometimes, Bowser decided to loosen restrictions or to refrain from bringing back lapsed rules, even when the metrics worsened.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
• After the racial gap in unemployment was at its slimmest in months, an increase in unemployment among Black workers is causing some concern over lapsed progress for the Black labor force.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Nesbitt said there were no immediate plans to reinstitute any of the lapsed virus protocols, but that always remained an option in the future.
  — Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• Illinois apparently had a burst of lapsed ambition and shuffled around only $2.5 million.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• How Ballarin dealt with one credit card company pursuing her for lapsed payments is notable.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
• The senator said the bill would resemble a previously lapsed law that required the attorney general to petition a three-judge panel to choose a prosecutor.
  — Andrew Rafferty, NBC News, 10 May 2017
• To read Stone’s memoir, co-written by Ben Greenman as the inaugural title of Questlove’s new book imprint, is to be pulled down into some inner circle of hell reserved for lapsed geniuses with impulse-control issues.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Mikey latches onto an easily corruptible 17-year-old donut-shop waitress Strawberry (Suzanna Son) as if reliving his own lapsed innocence.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• Aldermen also reinstated a 15-day grace period for lapsed stickers and banned consecutive and same-day ticketing.
  — ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2019
• But other reporting indicates that Singer had a preexisting relationship with the firm, having hired them in 2014 as his hedge fund, Elliott Management, fought the Argentine government over billions of dollars in lapsed debt payments.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• Deadline for lapsed members to apply to reinstate their membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 74th Emmy competition and secure member entry fee discount.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
• Deadline for lapsed members to apply to reinstate their membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 75th Emmy competition and secure member entry-fee discount.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024