lapse into

Exposure to a gas leak in an abandoned mine induced a former Army Air Corps officer to lapse into a form of suspended animation.

Yes, yes, I will. But I am going to lapse into a mini coma for just a second, and then we're gonna have the best Lego battle ever.

He kept his distance from the rest of the townsfolk and seemed to lapse into a dark, brooding depression.

But when you're trying to accomplish one thing and lapse into "task-unrelated thoughts, " that's mind wandering.

I saw him smile to himself--grin rather--and lapse into ominous musing whenever Mrs Linton had occasion to be absent from the apartment.

The moment he relaxes his concentration, he will lapse into a ''. 'stutter'.

The prospect of an Asian arms race is genuinely frightening, but prudent concern about China's build-up must not lapse into hysteria.

For an instant, each was tempted to lapse into the old, familiar progression of movements toward further intimacies.

At other moments it must have taken strength of mind for the visitors not to lapse into an inferiority complex.

But the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy.

Bereft of the tradition, the work will lose the unique Chinese cultural quality and lapse into mediocrity.

The gun began to lapse into silence.

Every now and then he would lapse into the local dialect.

But without legal, political and economic reform, Russia could well lapse into stagnation.

His lapse into drunkenness followed a long run of bad luck.

All of us lapse into such mistaken impressions of old age from time to time.

a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity.