lap

Definition:
1. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
2. An area of control or responsibility.
3. The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs.
4. A flap that lies over another part.
5. Movement once around a course.
6. Touching with the tongue.
7. Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another.
8. Pass the tongue over.

Use 'lap' in a sentence:

• 1. Hugh glanced at the child on her mother's lap.
• 2. He managed to overhaul the leader on the final lap.
• 3. Jumping away, she brought Clara some bunches of fragrant herbs and put them in her lap.
• 4. By lap two Walker was two metres clear of the rest of the runners.
• 5. With four laps to go, he kept pace with the leaders.
• 6. You'll never create any luck if you sit there waiting for it to fall into your lap.
• 7. Heidi put one roll after another into the grandmother's lap.
• 8. She has completed six laps.
• 9. On lap two, Baker edged forward.
• 10. She sat with her hands in her lap.
• 11. Her eyes dropped to her lap.
• 12. The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
• 13. The pressure began to tell as rain closed in after 20 laps.
• 14. He bent to a squat and gathered the puppies on his lap.
• 15. Going into the fourth lap, the two most broadly experienced riders led the field.
• 16. The boy climbed up onto the couch into my lap, facing me.
• 17. He lapped up the attention and the opportunity to voice his thoughts.
• 18. Mary's thin hands clutched each other as they lay on her lap.
• 19. The building was right on the river and the water lapped the walls.
• 20. The waves lapped around our feet.
• 21. Mikey imagined that they were skating a victory lap around the Olympic rink and she was a member of a gold-medal hockey team.
• 22. We don't live in the lap of luxury, but we're comfortable.
• 23. Then came steel strings, and that led to the lap guitar—which is also called the steel guitar because the player slides a steel rod up and down the neck.
• 24. She lowered her gaze to the hands in her lap.
• 25. My legs failed me and I wasn't able to run the last lap.
• 26. On the last lap three runners were disputing the lead.
• 27. My sister stumbles past me, dropping her wand, and cries into her lap.
• 28. He then built a 10-bike lead before lapping his first rider on lap 14.
• 29. There's only one seat so you'll have to sit on my lap.
• 30. I caught him a lap later, and although I could pass him I could not shake him off.
• 31. He put on an impressive turn of speed in the last lap.
• 32. On the third lap he left the other runners far behind.
• 33. Heidi, immediately gathering a large bunch, put them in Clara's lap.
• 34. We've nearly finished. We're on the last lap.
• 35. She turned back to the Bible lying open in her lap.
• 36. In one room, young mothers weave while babies doze in their laps.
• 37. He was overtaken on the final lap.
• 38. Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
• 39. They're off on the first lap of their round-the-world tour.
• 40. My dream job just fell into my lap.
• 41. She waited quietly with her hands in her lap.
• 42. A lady always sits quietly with her hands in her lap.
• 43. He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate.
• 44. She kept her hands folded in her lap.
• 45. They dropped the problem firmly back in my lap.
• 46. With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived.
• 47. She started the last lap just behind the leading group.
• 48. She took the lead in the second lap.
• 49. I went to overtake him on the back straight on the last lap.