Sami lapsed back into hardcore addiction.

Alex' mother lapsed into a coma not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s.

Tom lapsed into a coma and didn't regain consciousness.

Every time we talk about this, you lapse into silence.

“I think so,” murmured the Provincial Mayor; and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words.

Although Mary is a lapsed Catholic, and Tom no longer believes in God, they invited the missionaries in and gave them each a glass of water.

I am a lapsed vegetarian.

He lapsed morally.

He lapsed into despair after that accident.