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.
