Noun : a lapse of justice. ,a lapse of memory. ,a lapse of ten minutes before the program resumed. ,a lapse into savagery.    From Dictionary.com. 

Even more refreshing is the abolishing of 'lapsing' of Bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard | Headlines] Reference

Marcia Lowe was lapsing into old-fashioned speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

Master Richard, lapsing into silence, thought things over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

The lapsing of the licensing laws in 1695 had given a special impetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

When excited I should be lapsing into Italian, which would be very absurd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

This is why reformed men always have a hidden fear of lapsing into the former life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training] Reference

At that point, he was having severe headaches, lapsing in and out of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2002] Reference

QUESTION: Is also another condition of that the lapsing in and out of consciousness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2002] Reference

Arabic, half in French, but lapsing more and more into the vernacular as he grew excited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

It was that season of the year when weary summer is lapsing into the arms of fallow autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference

"Tell me all about it, Mother!" cried Mollie, partly lapsing into French in her excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats] Reference

GUPTA (voice-over): Back in the ambulance, Richardson's lapsing in and out of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009] Reference

"And then down comes the rain and spoils it all," finished the versifier, lapsing into prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference

GUPTA (voice-over): Back in the ambulance, Richardson is lapsing in and out of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2009] Reference

Slowly but surely we are lapsing into Bullo-doodledom, with a momentary preponderance of Bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

GUPTA (voice-over): Back in the ambulance, Richardson ` s lapsing in and out of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2009] Reference

His condition has not changed overnight, which means he is lapsing in and out of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2002] Reference

On the trail, Clark seemed stilted at times, lapsing into military lingo that drew blank stares.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUMPING UP THE VOLUME] Reference

I always had a fear of lapsing into a signature style, then I had a fear of not ever getting one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference

As a candidate, he is dry as grain dust, often lapsing into locker-room platitudes to make his case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coach's New Game Plan] Reference

But to prevent my lapsing into dense ignorance I was to read an hour daily to my mother and learn some.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

Then lapsing into her old manner of checked utterance, she added, "I cannot talk, but you should be told.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

"I'll hang till she shakes me, Dan!" laughed the other, lapsing into the slang of the men as his hopes rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference

"Hit war spoutin 'powerful," she answered, in her stress of excitement lapsing into the language of childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

She saw in his eyes the look of a person who has been all day lapsing into meditation and rousing himself from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pool in the Desert] Reference

Then, lapsing into his worst grammar, in his excitement he said, 'I never forgetted you one day since I was borned!.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

The world was no longer dreaming but stark awake, all but the sea and the lapsing bays and the brown floating hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

But American diplomacy has been labeled abroad as "crude," and is perpetually in danger of lapsing from this moral level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

Welfare reform is one of the hardest issues to debate without lapsing into demagoguery, as both sides have already demonstrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welfare Booby Traps] Reference

DURCH: Ten years from now, I think either the political questions have been resolved, or we'll probably be lapsing into more combat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006] Reference

From that time she sank rapidly, sleeping lightly, waking occasionally with a child-like smile, then lapsing again into unconsciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference