How to pronounce lapses
Listen to lapses 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.
“lapses” in real sentences
131 clips in the index · 64 American · 9 British · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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longer lapses and more lapses.
CDC · hear it here
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It's just lapses in those little details.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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So how does alcohol cause these memory lapses?
TED-Ed · hear it here
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person lapses or goes through an adverse health event.
NIH · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lapses. 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.