How to pronounce lapse
Listen to lapse in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“lapse” in real sentences
365 clips in the index · 144 American · 73 British · 7 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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with time lapse photography.
NSF · hear it here
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an extraordinary security lapse.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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a potential lapse in appropriations.
State Department · hear it here
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That's a time-lapse film.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lapse. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.