lapse

Example Sentences

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The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a staggered reduction in flights at the start of November as the funding lapse began to take its toll on air-traffic controllers.

From Barron's

Commitment could not be questioned here, but Spurs were undone by momentary lapses that always risk the ultimate punishment against PSG.

From BBC

"This was not a momentary lapse by Paul Doyle — it was a choice he made that day and it turned celebration into mayhem."

From BBC

Raised Catholic but long-since lapsed, he instead harnesses an emphatic merger of physical form and fluid red color to conjure a wholly secular vision of the body and the blood.

From Los Angeles Times

The federal government won’t publish a typical jobs report for October due to a lapse in appropriations.

From Barron's