Elapse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELAPSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pass by
• (of time) pass or go by
• (of time) pass by
• To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass away

Words related to ELAPSE

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Words that contain ELAPSE

delapse10 elapsed10 elapses9 relapse9 delapsed12 delapses11 relapsed11 relapser10 relapses10 relapsers11

How to use ELAPSE in a sentence

• Virtually this seat is unoccupied, as five years must elapse ere the coming of age and coronation of her youthful Majesty.
• Well might the Commissioner say, in 1867, that several years must elapse before the chaos which reigned could be reduced to order.
• Some four days we knew must certainly elapse before we could receive a reply, and that time was devoted to searching the city for Kitwater and Codd.
• No matter what happened, no matter what months or years might elapse, he would know her again and for ever know her again.
• Sometimes twenty minutes elapse after the trap is sprung ere the heart stops beating.
• Many hours would elapse before the train reached the Syr Daria, over which the line passes by a bridge like that over the Amou-Daria, but of less importance.
• Nearly two years elapse before we hear of it again.
• Many months, perhaps a whole year, must elapse before its weight can be felt on the battle front.
• Sufficient time must elapse to allow of his forgetting Gwenda.
• Could there be any peril in the short interval that was to elapse, before the vessel was to weigh anchor and quit the English shore? Probably not.
• A very short time only was allowed to elapse before Mr.
• You note the exact moment when you speak your word and the exact moment when I speak mine, then you see how many seconds elapse between the two moments.
• The horses will refuse to enter the water, and considerable time will elapse before they can be got across.
• Boats passed only at rare intervals, and a fortnight, or even a month, might elapse before an opportunity for rescue offered.
• More than fourteen years were to elapse before a daily paper was established.
• Six months elapse between the first and second acts.
• Just so did America grow beneath the gaze of Europe, though two centuries and more were to elapse before it stood out upon the map clean-cut and definite from border to border.
• From whatever cause, this was certainly done, and many years were to elapse before there came another English invasion.
• She remained in the shrine, praying, for a time without reason, as though she pretended to worship, until a certain space should elapse.
• At Hampstead, if he passed the doctors, at least four months would elapse before he could get in, there were so many on the books ahead of him.
• No one had heard him, he told himself with a grin as he stretched out on the bed beside Dade to sleep the hour that would elapse before daylight.
• Jerry swung himself into the baggage compartment, and after the elapse of a safe interval presented himself, grinning, in the day coach.
• He allowed a short interval to elapse and then fired again.
• The difficulties of entering and leaving the city are still so great that many days must elapse before the ordinary population can return.
• Here for two days they feasted, secure that a considerable time might elapse, before the Spaniards discovered that they had vanished from the fortress.
• But several days must still elapse before the breezes would blow right from the west.
• But four more years were to elapse before the central figure was ready to be placed under its starry canopy.
• A whole hour at least would elapse before the hull of the brig could emerge from the water of the channel.
• We estimate that each of these will break at least fifteen hundred acres during the six months that must elapse before we hope to return to Winnipeg.
• An hour before he had taken the step which made the duel with Hamilton inevitable, though eleven days were to elapse before the actual encounter.
• Not more than two or three days should be permitted to elapse before you reply to an invitation of this kind.
• Six months would elapse between the two, and during that time he would be flat on his back.
• Between steps of noticeable change there elapse periods many times longer than the life of historic man.
• An agreement had been made between them that some little time should elapse before Allan put his long-cherished scheme into execution.

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