Lag is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like slowdown or dawdle. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lag in a sentence
Related words
Lag meaning
- Late.
- Last; long-delayed.
- Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Synonyms of Lag
Using Lag
- The main meaning on this page is: Late. | Last; long-delayed. | Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
- Useful related words include: slowdown, fall back, dawdle, spline.
- In the example corpus, lag often appears in combinations such as: lag behind, jet lag, lag in.
Context around Lag
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lag
- In this selection, "lag" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jet, turbocharger, input, turbocharger, turbo and times stand out and add context to how "lag" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include afford to lag behind in, avoid jet lag on every and jet lag. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lag" sits close to words such as accuse, advertisers and bi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lag
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Geothermal and district heating also lag. (6 words)
And this travel expert revealed how to avoid jet lag on every flight. (13 words)
As with jet lag, there are some things you can do to manage gut lag. (15 words)
Including a lag of up to two weeks from infection to death resulted in a better model fit for influenza A and RSV, while the best fit for influenza B was no lag between week of infection and week of death. (41 words)
Yoo discussed the idea of “weekend jet lag,” (or “social jet lag”) where people throw off their rhythm with atypical habits, for example, eating and going to sleep later, waking up later, and exercising at different times of the day. (40 words)
As flagged on the Instagram account of The Lead-Lag Report, even though policy rates have surged from the levels seen in 2021, the relative strength ratio of the tech sector to the S&P500 has held up pretty well. (40 words)
And that’s primarily because of the long lag time there has been in implementing it, right? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Turbocharger lag Turbocharger lag (turbo lag) is the time required to change power output in response to a throttle change, noticed as a hesitation or slowed throttle response when accelerating as compared to a naturally aspirated engine.
Including a lag of up to two weeks from infection to death resulted in a better model fit for influenza A and RSV, while the best fit for influenza B was no lag between week of infection and week of death.
Yoo discussed the idea of “weekend jet lag,” (or “social jet lag”) where people throw off their rhythm with atypical habits, for example, eating and going to sleep later, waking up later, and exercising at different times of the day.
As with jet lag, there are some things you can do to manage gut lag.
By Ashkenazi practice, the semi-mourning observed during the period of Sefirah (see above) is lifted on Lag Ba'Omer, while Sefardi practice is to lift it at the end of Lag Ba'Omer.
Crossing the International Date Line does not in itself contribute to jet lag, as the guide for calculating jet lag is the number of time zones crossed, with a maximum possible time difference of plus or minus 12 hours.
Jet lag has been measured with simple analogue scales, but a study has shown that these are relatively blunt for assessing all the problems associated with jet lag.
Symptoms and consequences of jet lag can be a significant concern for athletes travelling east or west to competitions, as performance is often dependent on a combination of physical and mental characteristics that are impacted by jet lag.
The lag time discussed above has been reported to be about 5 minutes. citation citation citation Anecdotally, some users of the various systems report lag times of up to 10–15 minutes.
And that’s primarily because of the long lag time there has been in implementing it, right?
And there's also with a lag effect that we will have some releases overtime.
And this travel expert revealed how to avoid jet lag on every flight.
As flagged on the Instagram account of The Lead-Lag Report, even though policy rates have surged from the levels seen in 2021, the relative strength ratio of the tech sector to the S&P500 has held up pretty well.
Because of the spacecraft's age and the communication lag time, there's some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft.
But the service was plagued with issues from the beginning, including lag, poor image quality, and a limited games collection.
California can’t afford to lag behind in the race to adapt to existing climate dangers.
Even if they are less sexy that may appear mundane to most people, the progress on products like the lag screw built out of a different material can transform the world of hanging transformers.
Even with more powerful consoles running them, they take exceptionally long to load, and there is a noticeable input lag when making choices.
Frames win games, as Nvidia loves to say, and though it's not quite that linear, you can certainly reduce your input lag by improving the game's frame rate.
Geothermal and district heating also lag.
Phrases with lag
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with lag
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lag behind 30×
- jet lag 27×
- lag in 16×
- to lag 13×
- the lag 12×
- input lag 12×
- lag and 10×
- lag is 8×
- with lag 7×
- turbo lag 6×