How do you use Elapse in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like lapse or progress, plus the exact meaning.
Elapse meaning
To pass or move by.
Synonyms of Elapse
Using Elapse
- The main meaning on this page is: To pass or move by.
- Useful related words include: lapse, march on, move on, pass on.
- In the example corpus, elapse often appears in combinations such as: elapse between, to elapse, elapse before.
Context around Elapse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elapse
- In this selection, "elapse" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, must and deadline stand out and add context to how "elapse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include governors would elapse and has to elapse before rheumatic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elapse" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elapse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Some time must elapse before education attains the standard it had reached under the Germans. (15 words)
With the elapse of nearly six days after the incident, Iran has not yet commented on the cause of the accident. (21 words)
But the deadline elapse on Sunday without any move by the Presidency — consisting of the government and opposition leaders in the coalition. (22 words)
The Jordan decision sets a hard limit on the amount of time that can elapse between when charges are issued and a trial begins: 18 months if the case is being heard in provincial court or 30 months if its being heard in superior court. (45 words)
And given that time has to elapse before rheumatic diseases leave traces in the bone, they selected the remains of another 43 adults in the over the age of 45 as a control group and analyzed the mitochondrial lineages. (39 words)
Plebiscites of 342 BC placed limits on political offices; an individual could hold only one office at a time, and ten years must elapse between the end of his official term and his re-election. (35 words)
Example sentences (8)
According to them, the Wike-led group is recruiting supporters to push for a mini convention that would seal Ayu’s fate before May 29, 2023 when the tenures of the governors would elapse.
The Jordan decision sets a hard limit on the amount of time that can elapse between when charges are issued and a trial begins: 18 months if the case is being heard in provincial court or 30 months if its being heard in superior court.
And given that time has to elapse before rheumatic diseases leave traces in the bone, they selected the remains of another 43 adults in the over the age of 45 as a control group and analyzed the mitochondrial lineages.
But the deadline elapse on Sunday without any move by the Presidency — consisting of the government and opposition leaders in the coalition.
With the elapse of nearly six days after the incident, Iran has not yet commented on the cause of the accident.
If he allowed too much time to elapse between the initial drafting of a passage and its later elaboration, he found that he could not remember how he had intended to orchestrate the draft.
Plebiscites of 342 BC placed limits on political offices; an individual could hold only one office at a time, and ten years must elapse between the end of his official term and his re-election.
Some time must elapse before education attains the standard it had reached under the Germans.
Common combinations with elapse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- elapse between 3×
- to elapse 2×
- elapse before 2×
- must elapse 2×