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lap

noun as in orbit, circuit

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verb as in slosh, wash against

verb as in overlap

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New Senate Majority Leader McConnell had just taken a victory lap held a press conference.

This is a certifiable situation in our collective nervous lap, and the time is now for.

Instead of taking a victory lap, she was was dodging reporters.

A. I struck him in the back of the head while he was in my lap fighting to break free.

Tihen had insisted he was in her lap as she struggled to handcuff him.

At the sight, Felipe flung himself on his knees before her; he kissed the aged hands as they lay trembling in her lap.

See the ease and grace of the lady in the sacque, who sits on the bank there, under the myrtles, with the guitar on her lap!

I turned round, thrust my purse into the lap of the nearest, and with a light heart led the lady back to the hotel.

There was a picture of Madame Lebrun with Robert as a baby, seated in her lap, a round-faced infant with a fist in his mouth.

Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lap, such as: course, distance, round, circle, loop, and tour.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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