What can have occasioned this sudden lapse into modesty?

He was used to his friend's sudden lapses of silence, but familiarity did not make him enjoy them any better.

Was his sudden lapse a result of overwork ?

Before Cadderly could fight back against the sudden lapse, a scream from the hallway froze him where he sat.

As a consequence to the sudden lapse in inhabitants, the local school was forced to shut down.

His sudden lapse of morale took him by surprise, like a qualm in his stomach.

There was a sudden lapse in the singsong incantation.

I had fobbed that off by confessing to a sudden lapse of memory.

But many experts now describe as facile suggestions that the "bubble economy" caused a sudden lapse in Japan's business ethics.

The most frequent sign of this disorder is a sudden, momentary lapse or interruption of the voice.