lap against

Third seed Gauff will continue her US Open "victory lap" against German veteran Tatjana Maria, the world number 99, in the second round.

The floodwaters lap against the levee banks and from there stretch miles to the horizon.

Nhamo lay on her stomach and watched the waves lap against the shore.

Stars in Webb images have six points, unlike the four spikes common in most space photography, a quirk that emerges from the quantum mumbo-jumbo of how incoming photons lap against this telescope’s structure and are then gathered up by its hexagonal mirrors.

The three of us sit like this for a while, listening to the birds chatter in the trees and watching the gentle waves lap against the shore.