How to Use lap in a Sentence

lap

1 of 2 noun
Definition of lapnext
Synonyms for lapnext
  • The race was red-flagged for 15 minutes to clean up the track with eight laps to go.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The elephant isn’t just in the room, it’s sprawled across both of your laps, singing show tunes.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One of them hurled a fish at the audience—Suzy Menkes, then the doyen of The Times, caught it in her lap.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Some people run laps on the track or hike a few miles over the weekend, but me?
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2024
  • One lap is for Mercury, two are for Venus and three are for Earth, etc.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The men gave them lap dances and showed off their abs, which left the women swooning.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But even a year early, the trek is a victory lap for the band.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The whole thing is stable on your lap and very well-balanced.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Guests can then wind down with a drink beside the garden lap pool or in the Guinguette café.
    — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Rose and Jones were running side-by-side with about 16 laps to go when Rose spun around.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • That means Last Week Tonight got two victory laps in the same week.
    — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Midgette saw a man sitting on his porch with a rifle in his lap.
    — Ames Alexander and, Charlotte Observer, 3 May 2024
  • The first caution in nearly 200 laps came moments from the white flag.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The breed is known for enjoying warm laps, not the great outdoors.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • And Gromit was just so chill on Chris's lap while Chris was rolling calls, planning out the season.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The top seven drivers turned laps faster than Tagliani's record, and 18 topped last year's pole lap.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2023
  • Her eyes were half open, lips parted, hands in her lap and upturned.
    — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Lay your infant or child across your lap and on their stomach.
    — Leah Groth, Health, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Bourne had to run a lap for making a mistake during 11-on-11 drills.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • In the blurry clip, a woman with brown, wavy hair can be seen with a child on her lap in the background of karaoke at the reception.
    — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • Montoya led the points from the season-opening race right until the final lap.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The White House was quick to take a victory lap afterward.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The Wave Waterpark has water slides, a lazy river, lap pools and tot play area.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Bryant and her daughter match in red sweatsuits, with the proud mom holding her daughter on her lap.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In the cute snap, Cuoco held Matilda in her lap on the plane as the little one sported a pair of large headphones over her ears.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In both of the images, Ella can be seen smiling at the camera while sitting on her dad's lap.
    — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • The daughter places the pillow on her mother’s lap and guides her mother’s hand over a large yellow patch.
    — Kat McGowan, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Table rubbed his right arm, felt beautiful, said her name to his lap.
    — Hazlitt, 14 June 2023
  • That was Hoke’s first lap holding the reins after the disastrous three-season run of Chuck Long.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • There's an additional point available for the driver with the fastest lap if that driver is a top-ten finisher.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 May 2024
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lap

2 of 2 verb
  • The audience lapped it up, both in the room and back home.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Both the crowd and the internal Waystar crew lap it up.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 May 2023
  • As the waves lapped lightly, the canopy of stars stretched out before me.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • But these tidal forces aren’t supposed to lap the shores of places like New York.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The frigid sea lapped at the shores of Tee Harbor, about 15 miles northwest of Juneau.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Both are there to lap up the celebration, as well as to take the stage.
    — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There's a player who has the same look who laps fives with Booker.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The floodwaters lap against the levee banks and from there stretch miles to the horizon.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The small waves, cold and gentle, lapped my ankles, then my calves, then my thighs.
    — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
  • The clearest blue waves rolled in and out, crashing onto the sand as the water lapped at my toes.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • At high tide, the ocean waves lap up against the dune, which itself is badly eroded.
    — By wayne Parry, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • To your left, imagine the East River lapping at your feet.
    — Russell Shorto, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • The sound of lapping waves and the call of seagulls mixed with a steady whirring of the port’s machinery as rain began to fall.
    — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Its gin-clear waters that lap up against white-sand beaches will leave you in awe.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Spring in this beach town brings long, lazy hours on a lounge chair, reading a good book and watching the waves lap onto the sand.
    — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • They were found hugging each other close as the water lapped around them.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Now retired, Neville said the building boom and growth have brought more traffic and even changed the way the water used to lap up against the sea wall.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
  • Conner lapped the field as state runner-up Louisville St. Xavier finished with 154 points.
    — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 16 June 2023
  • In one of its final scenes, Shinji sits quietly on a beach as waves lap against the shore.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2021
  • On the other hand, Saban has lapped the field and is coming back around on first-round picks by SEC coaches.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Americans in their 20s and 30s nowadays have a lot of spare parental love in their hearts — and their dogs are lapping it up.
    — Sam Apple, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Would her unprotected feet leave a faint trail of blood across the dining-room floor for the cat to lap up with its clean, pink tongue?
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Madonna is lapping up the last days of summer with her children.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Video shot from an inflatable boat showed a man in the boat holding on to the side of a house as water lapped the walls just beneath a pitched roof.
    — Matthew Mulligan, NBC News, 8 June 2023
  • Once flying free, the spacecraft was meant to lap around the world, ending with a crash-landing in the Pacific near Hawaii.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The crayfish are still walking, the seagulls are flying, the cats are meowing, and the waves are lapping.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Johnson’s fans should lap this one up, along with the duck à l’orange served in the French hospital cafeteria.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2021
  • The depleted version may not lap the AL West field as we've been accustomed.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Trump soon expects to lap Biden in fundraising in one regard, however.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Ripley laps up the healthy salary (especially in the ‘50s) in his latest role — to persuade Dickie (Johnny Flynn) to leave Italy and return home.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024

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