Definition of Elapse

to pass or move by

Examples of Elapse in a sentence

Due to my head injury, severe blackouts occurred that meant ten minutes would elapse without knowing what happened.  🔊

Because of the rain delay, thirty minutes would elapse before the Detroit Tigers baseball game would begin.  🔊

Hours would elapse before we could even get to the movie theater.  🔊

Since someone could get lost in the haunted woods, time would elapse and cause them to be transported into a future time period.  🔊

While the man was frozen in time, the clocks would spin around so that time would elapse.  🔊

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