Sample Sentences forelapse (editor-reviewed)
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Several hours elapsed before they heard any news.elapsed = passed
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Only a few minutes had elapsed when the fire alarm sounded again.
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Average soldiers-disabled, average enemy-disabled, average time-elapsed-before-victory — in every category he was ranked first. (source)
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It was one of those conversations that require some time to elapse between exchanges.† (source)
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Five critical minutes would elapse before the FBI managed to find the car.† (source)
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Hear it, somehow, until whole seconds elapse between beats.† (source)
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Several years elapsed during which they released no new games.† (source)
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The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied.† (source)
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It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic— and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity—horror or pleasure or amazement—depends as completely upon a formal recognition of and acceptance of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale.† (source)
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We have figured out fundamental laws of physics—laws that govern how stars shine and light travels, laws that dictate how time elapses and space expands, laws that allow us to peer back to the briefest moment after the universe began.† (source)
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Ninety-two hours had already elapsed, and only 1,108 hours remained.† (source)
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Weeks, it is true, would sometimes elapse, during which Pearl's gaze might never once be fixed upon the scarlet letter; but then, again, it would come at unawares, like the stroke of sudden death, and always with that peculiar smile and odd expression of the eyes.† (source)
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Thus I proceeded as my eyes of a man already dead registered the elapsing of that day, which was perhaps the last, and the diffusion of the night.† (source)
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An interval elapses.† (source)
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About four hundred years have elapsed since St. Augustine, and now school starts.† (source)
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"The President is so accessible that any villain can feign business, and, while talking with him, draw a razor and cut his throat," Hay worries aloud, "and some minutes might elapse after the murderer's escape before we could discover what had been done."† (source)
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