elapsed; elapsing
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Examples of elapse in a Sentence
Verb
in those coin-operated binoculars at scenic areas your viewing time seems to elapse almost before it has begun
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Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
Those headlights were set to high beam out of the gates Friday, as the Wolves scored the first 11 points and led by 22 before even eight minutes had elapsed.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Jan. 2024
Roughly two minutes elapsed between when the ship's pilot notified state authorities of an issue on board and when the bridge collapsed, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski said.
—Rohan Mattu, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
Accounting for these interactions proved so complicated that nearly 50 years would elapse between Anderson’s 1958 paper and the first serious attempts to understand localization in many-particle systems, which physicists call many-body localization.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
By this time, about twenty-five minutes had elapsed.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2024
In the race, Alonso was given a five-second penalty for lining up outside his grid box at the start of the event and then was assessed a further 10-second penalty for not serving the first correctly due to a mechanic’s jack touching the car before the five seconds had elapsed.
—Matias Grez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
The year that elapsed between when many of the statements, which were reported in media accounts, were made and when the defense filed a motion to change the trial’s venue muted the statements’ ability to impact the pool, the state argued.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
Other professionals in the field say that, despite the time that has elapsed, a person with a prior felony involving child neglect should not have been working with children, and particularly children with autism.
—Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2024
Julie Carr Smyth, The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2024
More than 25 seconds elapse between the final Palestinian rocket and the hospital explosion.
—Christoph Koettl, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
Approximately five seconds elapse between the time that the officer gets out of his patrol car, runs over to the driver’s side of Irizarry’s vehicle, and fires his gun what appears to be six times with at least one shot striking Irizarry’s front windshield.
—Danny Freeman, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
The 17 hours that elapse between check-in and check-out will be spent doing any number of activities laid out in the listing.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
From the moment the algorithms set to work detecting their targets until these targets are prosecuted — a term of art in the field — no more than two or three minutes elapse.
—Bruno Maçães, Time, 10 July 2023
But several minutes elapse before officers attempt to deliver oxygen or CPR.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
The day marks the elapse of a 30-day grace period since the country was due to pay the equivalent of $100 million in dollars and euros to bondholders.
—Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 26 June 2022
Verb
If a camping party is required to leave a campground upon reaching the 15-night limit, the party is not eligible to return until five nights have elapsed.
—Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
Those headlights were set to high beam out of the gates Friday, as the Wolves scored the first 11 points and led by 22 before even eight minutes had elapsed.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Jan. 2024
Roughly two minutes elapsed between when the ship's pilot notified state authorities of an issue on board and when the bridge collapsed, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski said.
—Rohan Mattu, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
Accounting for these interactions proved so complicated that nearly 50 years would elapse between Anderson’s 1958 paper and the first serious attempts to understand localization in many-particle systems, which physicists call many-body localization.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
By this time, about twenty-five minutes had elapsed.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2024
In the race, Alonso was given a five-second penalty for lining up outside his grid box at the start of the event and then was assessed a further 10-second penalty for not serving the first correctly due to a mechanic’s jack touching the car before the five seconds had elapsed.
—Matias Grez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
The year that elapsed between when many of the statements, which were reported in media accounts, were made and when the defense filed a motion to change the trial’s venue muted the statements’ ability to impact the pool, the state argued.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
Other professionals in the field say that, despite the time that has elapsed, a person with a prior felony involving child neglect should not have been working with children, and particularly children with autism.
—Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2024
Noun
As time has passed, however, the governor has questioned the death penalty's value because of the long delays that elapse between crime and punishment.
—Julie Carr Smyth, The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2024
More than 25 seconds elapse between the final Palestinian rocket and the hospital explosion.
—Christoph Koettl, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
Approximately five seconds elapse between the time that the officer gets out of his patrol car, runs over to the driver’s side of Irizarry’s vehicle, and fires his gun what appears to be six times with at least one shot striking Irizarry’s front windshield.
—Danny Freeman, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
The 17 hours that elapse between check-in and check-out will be spent doing any number of activities laid out in the listing.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
From the moment the algorithms set to work detecting their targets until these targets are prosecuted — a term of art in the field — no more than two or three minutes elapse.
—Bruno Maçães, Time, 10 July 2023
But several minutes elapse before officers attempt to deliver oxygen or CPR.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
The day marks the elapse of a 30-day grace period since the country was due to pay the equivalent of $100 million in dollars and euros to bondholders.
—Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 26 June 2022
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elapsed; elapsing
: to slip or glide away : pass
weeks elapsed before I found time to write
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