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lapsed

[ UK /lˈæpsd/ ]
[ US /ˈɫæpst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. no longer active or practicing
    a lapsed Catholic

How To Use lapsed In A Sentence

  • He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
  • As time went on, these cartoons got even worse and eventually collapsed with the folding of the company.
  • Indeed, so many of us now possess a handset that mobile phone sales have collapsed.
  • Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
  • Troops found the church with large holes blasted out of its cement walls and its tin roof collapsed.
  • His closest friends had no time for biblical Christianity, his church attendance lapsed, and his work became increasingly secular, including writing for the theatre.
  • The company collapsed last week, costing about 200 jobs and triggering a backlash from staff and suppliers. Times, Sunday Times
  • How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount?
  • One section of the factory's main exterior wall had already collapsed, leaving a pile of smouldering rubble. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now it looks like some of these banks may have been technically insolvent for quite some time before they actually collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
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