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Example sentences for "lap"

Lexicographically close words:
lanthorn; lanthorns; lanyard; lanyards; lanzknechts; lapdog; lapel; lapels; lapful; lapidaries
  1. Only Down, the cat, wandering over roofs and Heaven knows where and how, looked in here and there to settle on some one's lap and purr.

  2. Here I can see him each lap and know he is safe so far.

  3. The girl dropped her face in Flavia's lap and burst into hysterical tears, covering her hands with kisses.

  4. The car came around on the next lap with the condition hardly improved.

  5. I sent lap orders at one o'clock for Number One and the Irving Special.

  6. A lap order for the Irving Special and the Number One passenger, and it doomed them to meet head on somewhere between O'Fallon's and the Salt Rocks, in the Peace River canon.

  7. There's a lap order out on One and the theatrical Special, Callahan.

  8. I know that at this moment you have your reward.

  9. But she may stand here too, there is room for us both," interrupted the little Ellen, though she did not offer to give up her place in her aunt's lap to her cousin.

  10. Could they consent to expose their fragile child, nursed as she had been in the lap of luxury and comfort, to all the evils and annoyances of poverty?

  11. Neither did this first great revolution in the lap of mankind come into force simultaneously among the ancient nations; nor yet is it probable that it was accomplished everywhere in the same manner.

  12. These are elements that lap over, even beyond the reach of the State and require international treatment.

  13. It was Germany rather Scandinavia; for Scandinavia was, originally, exclusively Lap or Fin.

  14. On the side of Norway few contrasts are more definite and striking than that between the nomad Lap with his reindeer, and reindeer-skin habiliments and the industrial and highly civilized Norwegian.

  15. On the west, however, the further we went, the less Lap was everything.

  16. The stature of the Lap is less than that of the Fin; though the Fin is more short than tall, and the Lap is far from being so stunted as books and pictures make him.

  17. On the whole, however, the Fin physiognomy is Lap, and the Lap Fin; and the languages are allied.

  18. Instead of being Lap it was Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, or German.

  19. He ran quickly to where the children were lying, and deposited the baked potatoes, and a few coppers as well, in the girl's lap and hands.

  20. And then again, looking up tenderly from the babe in her lap to her husband's face, 'Perhaps this is the reason why God has given us no children.

  21. What was it you found in your' lap the other mornin'?

  22. Wasn't you astonished to find baked taters in your lap when you woke up?

  23. Even these white canvas tents, lying in the lap of Night, in the centre of the forest of peaks, do not dispel the illusion.

  24. Then she came up out of the cistern and throwing herself on the Porter's lap said, "O my lord, O my love, what callest thou this article?

  25. Sometimes across your lap I lie, And breathe that evening prayer again, And looking in your tearful eye, Again repeat that sweet amen.

  26. Get down, Tige"--this to the bull pup who was trying to climb into his master's lap for better protection from the storm.

  27. The completion of the second lap practically finished the five of us who were still in the race.

  28. The second lap of the Marathon was a sheer fight for life, or, rather, for the breath to sustain life.

  29. Wat had-ie gejouwd en gejoeld toen 'r 'n optocht was in de straten, een met 'n rooie lap vooruit liep.

  30. In this work are the Magi adoring Jesus Christ, who is in the lap of His Mother, and in one corner is his own portrait from life, which is a passing good likeness.

  31. Paul, who are contemplating the Dead Saviour of the World in the lap of His mother.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lapis calaminaris; lapis lazuli