Sentence for lap | Use lap in a sentence

Use the word lap in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lap in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lap.

  • There was no lap of water. (8)
  • She bent and smote her lap. (10)
  • Her head dropped in her lap. (10)
  • He died with his head on my lap. (10)
  • Mrs. Mountstuart struck her lap. (10)
  • Give me a priests lap when I need it. (10)
  • Grace dropped her sewing into her lap. (9)
  • You have tossed trinkets into my lap. (10)
  • You have tossed trinkets into my lap. (22)
  • I want the Huns to lap their own sauce. (8)
  • Her hands were joined softly in her lap. (10)
  • She pressed her hands in her lap, trembling. (10)
  • She pressed her hands in her lap, trembling. (22)
  • A little ball of paper was shot into her lap. (10)
  • Mrs. Pendyce looked at the daffodil in her lap. (8)
  • She closed her book, and it slipped off her lap. (8)
  • In her lap this evening lay a letter from her father. (8)
  • Emilia gazed at her nerveless hands lying in her lap. (10)
  • She sat there with her hands in her lap, just staring. (9)
  • The forlorn woman turned her lap towards the youngest. (10)
  • His wife brushed some crumbs from her lap before rising. (9)
  • She did not answer, but sorted over the clusters in her lap. (9)
  • The baroness fixed her eyes on Tresten: she struck her lap. (10)
  • I sat on her lap this morning while she was sewing your curtains. (8)
  • But I can lie still on the lap of an old friendship such as ours. (14)
  • Then she hesitated, with her hand on a letter faced down in her lap. (9)
  • Helen shut the book in her lap and laid it on the table very firmly. (13)
  • Mrs. Pendyce dropped the letter in her lap, and looked at her cousin. (8)
  • She saw a woman seated on the steps as beggarwomen sit, face in lap. (10)
  • And Nedda, at the window, squeezed her hands tight together in her lap. (8)
  • Mrs. Kenton sat dreamily watching him, with her hands fallen in her lap. (9)
  • Christian had brought her some oranges, and he laid the fruit on her lap. (12)
  • But when he was gone, she sat under the pine-tree with little Gyp on her lap. (8)
  • Had he come to haunt her on account of the money he had poured into her lap? (10)
  • Had he come to haunt her on account of the money he had poured into her lap? (22)
  • He could feel no order in the lift and lap of the wan waters round his limbs. (8)
  • Grace rose, and moved towards the door, with the things dropping from her lap. (9)
  • The other jewels she dropped one by one into her lap, and sat looking at them. (8)
  • Lady Summerhay got up, and the book on dreams slipped off her lap with a thump. (8)
  • Verrian returned to his cigar, from which the ashen wraith dropped into his lap. (9)
  • With waves careering mast-high he sat placidly on deck with a Bible on his lap. (19)
  • Then Mrs. Berry spread her lap, flattened out her hands, fixed her eyes, and spoke. (10)
  • His sleeves were turned over at the wrists, and her gown showed its lining on her lap. (10)
  • If he had only given her the gold with a kind word, not flung it silently into her lap. (5)
  • And Nedda sat with hands tight clenched in her lap, motionless as a young crouching sphinx. (8)
  • And the slow tears rolled faster and faster from her eyes on to her hands and her black lap. (8)
  • She folded the paper she had been reading from and put it in her lap, in default of a pocket. (9)
  • She was sitting by a furze-bush in flower, cherishing in her lap a lamb that had been worried. (10)
  • She sat, slim, motionless, studying the grate, her hands idle in the lap of her black silk dress. (8)
  • Votes falling into his lap are heavenly gifts to the candidate sick of the knocker and the bell. (10)
  • She got a little back of the others, and sat looking wistfully out over the bay, with her hands in her lap. (9)
  • He looked round and saw that she had in the hand dropped in her lap the bills he had given her after supper. (9)
  • But in the train she sat very still, gazing at her lap, and only once glanced up from under those long lashes. (8)
  • There she sat, ready to strike the notes if anyone came in; and tears fell on the hands that rested in her lap. (8)
  • This was the lap of Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace, who greeted him with a warm, quiet smile, and made a little room. (8)
  • A sentinel, who ought to have been shot, sat by the embers, his carbine across his lap, his chin upon his breast. (7)
  • She sat with a smile on her lips, quite still, save for the continual movement of her white hands on her black lap. (8)
  • She then begged hungrily for news of Rome, and again of Rome, and sat with her hands clasped in her lap to listen. (10)
  • She sat, with her fingers locked together in her lap, gazing forward on the floor, her head a little sideways bent. (10)
  • She sat, with her fingers locked together in her lap, gazing forward on the floor, her head a little sideways bent. (22)
  • He kissed her hand, and laid it on her lap; eyed it, and met her eyes; took a header into her eyes, and lost himself. (10)
  • Scruff made no attempt to free his forelegs; but sniffed the soup, and finding that nothing happened, began to lap it. (8)
  • Mrs. March faced her book down in her lap, and listened as if there might be some reason in the nonsense I was talking. (9)
  • She held it a moment; then, looking deliberately at Penelope, she went up to her, and dropped it in her lap without a word. (9)
  • She looked down at the fan, now flat in her lap, and tried to govern her head, but it trembled, and she remained looking down. (9)
  • Those who charged her with a lamentable lack of perseverance were right; the linen which she began to hem fell into her lap only too soon. (5)
  • Her father found her sitting in the solitude of a drawing-room at midday, pale-faced, with unoccupied fingers, not even a book in her lap. (10)

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