How to Use lag in a Sentence

lag

1 of 2 noun
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  • The frame rate is low and there's lag on the two-way audio.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The frame rate is low, and there's lag on the two-way audio.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The frame rate is low, and there's some lag on the two-way audio.
    — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The Fed’s own moves over the past year have lag times that are not entirely known.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There seems to always be a lag in when these appear for me.
    — Tj McCue, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Then there’s the lag time between doing the work and getting paid for it.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • After a lag, many of those migrants join the labor force.
    — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Harman hit a beautiful lag from 70 feet for a two-putt birdie on the par-5 fifth.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 22 July 2023
  • Bringing their own food would have helped cut down on the midday lag and made more time for the mountain.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And when there is a data breach, there is a lag time between the discovery of the breach and when the public knows.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • The longer a shutdown lasts, however, the greater the chance that Medicare providers see a lag in payments.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The problem is there’s about a six-month reporting lag.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There was a processing lag, and then shock and something like fear.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
  • There is some lag, though, in the death data reporting.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 May 2023
  • The lag reflects the high number of orders that need to be fulfilled, Gunsberg said.
    — Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There is a years-long lag time between the projects' funding and their completion.
    — Bo Erickson, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But the trick is the Fed doesn’t even know how long these lags may last between a rate hike and its effect on inflation.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 16 June 2023
  • Those lower prices show up in the government’s data with a lag.
    — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There are many knotty reasons for the lag in laying new power lines.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2023
  • It should be noted that this slight lag rarely affects other users.
    — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The gear ratios seem just right, and boost lag is almost undetectable.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 May 2023
  • Businesses may have to figure out ways around the shipping lags.
    — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
  • There is typically a lag between changes in wholesale prices and what is charged at the check-out counter.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The more likely etymology points to the root lag, or law.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This extra oomph is fed in at lower rpm to reduce turbo lag and smooth out the start/stop system.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 5 July 2023
  • Rate increases work with a lag, meaning the economy has yet to feel the full effect of the Fed’s actions.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • Because there is a lag in data on births, these results do not include the most recent trends.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • That’s because there’s roughly a year-long lag between when the Fed acts and when its actions are felt in the economy.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
  • States are reimbursed for work already completed to restore highways, which means there’s a natural lag as projects are finished.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps, the lags between changes in the inflation rate and Presidential economic-approval ratings are even longer.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
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lag

2 of 2 verb
  • Christie lagged at 12%, with the rest of the GOP field further behind.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The sums lag well behind what will likely have to be spent to win the race.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Eagles shut out the Rams in the second half, the fourth game in a row that the Rams have lagged in the final two quarters.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Fowler had a chance to go up by two strokes on the 14th with a nearly 70-foot putt up the hill for eagle and lagged to four feet short.
    — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2023
  • About 6 in 10 workers say their incomes have lagged the price increases of the last year.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Compared to Asia and Europe, the US is lagging in high-speed rail services.
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Browns are headed back to the playoffs, and Pittsburgh will be lagging behind.
    — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
  • After shares of the healthcare heavyweight lagged all year, traders are piling in.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • But there's one area where Biden is surging and Trump is lagging: money.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The global temperature effects of El Niño always lag the peak of the event.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2024
  • However, there was one state that lagged behind the rest: Idaho.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The campaign has now opened lots of field offices and hiring staff, while Trump's ground game is lagging in key states, like Arizona.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Everyone views their pets that way, and the law is slowly lagging behind.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On the first month SAMe lagged behind, but by the end of the trial there was no significant difference between the groups.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • And while that helped narrow the ratio of Black wealth to White wealth, Black household wealth still lags far behind that of their White counterparts.
    — Jarrell Dillard Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But even as parents are making their decisions, the law lags behind the culture.
    — Fortesa Latifi, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • As a result, obligation and spending rates have lagged.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The Milwaukee metro area lagged slightly behind Madison as the 30th best metro areas to start a small business.
    — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • While Bose has long been a leader with their noise canceling, the sound quality has lagged behind.
    — Geoffrey Morrison, wsj.com, 31 Oct. 2023
  • As space expanded, the denser areas lagged and dark matter pooled, pulling normal matter with it.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • DeSantis lags behind Trump DeSantis has a long way to go, if polls are to be believed.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • Yet as our charts show, women players lag far behind men in pay, a gap that some nations are trying to address.
    — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Although Poland may lag behind in terms of IP ownership, key producers bring a wind of change.
    — Julie Vincent, Variety, 3 July 2023
  • That would almost certainly add to emissions, even though countries are lagging on their pledges to cut them.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Yet manufacturing is lagging and has dropped 2,800 jobs from a year ago.
    — Andrew Moreau, arkansasonline.com, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But the fundraising efforts lagged, at least until the Golden Door donation.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
  • Those are hopeful signs but severely lag the national figures, which show air travel through the first five months of the year was up slightly from 2019.
    — Mike Rogoway | [email protected], oregonlive, 25 June 2023
  • Index funds that mirror the entire market could well lag behind.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • While specialties like pediatrics and internal medicine saw a higher match rate among disabled applicants than their non-disabled peers, other areas lagged behind.
    — John Loeppky, Verywell Health, 3 May 2024
  • In many countries, diagnosis still lags behind, and the equipment needed to detect cancer and other conditions, not to mention the expertise required to administer treatments, isn’t available.
    — TIME, 2 May 2024

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