lapping

Regularly lapping five seconds faster than anyone else, Schumacher was one of only six drivers to finish and in a class of his own.

Unlike dozens of feral cats found dead on farms with outbreaks, these domestic cats didn’t roam around herds, lapping up milk that teemed with virus.

Other observations were ominous: About half of some 40 cats on one farm died suddenly at the peak of its outbreak, probably from lapping up raw milk suffused with bird flu virus.

Over the lapping of the waves, and the thwack thwack of paddle games on the beach, a sound cuts through - a sudden deep boom.

The rental home sat just a few blocks off the Strand in Manhattan Beach, close enough to the ocean that coaches could hear the waves lapping on the sand late at night.