LAP in a Sentence

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For LAP, below is one of 157 sentences:
Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lap
 n.  flap that lies over another part; area of control or responsibility; upper side of the thighs of a seated person
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Scarlett longed to be there now, alone with Ellen, so she could put her head in her mother's lap and cry in peace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Mammy, as head woman of the plantation, had remained to help Ellen, and it was Dilcey who rode on the driver's seat beside Toby, the girls' dancing dresses in a long box across her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  If she could only be with Ellen, just to see her, to hold onto her skirt, to cry and pour out the whole story in her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She said nothing but looked down into her lap, and Charles was thrown into new states of ecstasy and embarrassment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Little Wade was no longer an annoyance, for the family, black and white, and the neighbors idolized him and there was a never-ceasing rivalry as to whose lap he should occupy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Melanie had been sitting quietly, her hands in her lap, her waffles cooling on her plate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  She put the letters back in the lap secretary and closed the lid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Rhett rose swiftly, deposited Wade in Fanny's lap, and went into the parlor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Fanny Elsing and the Bonnell girls, roused early from slumber, were yawning on the back seat and the Elsings' mammy sat grumpily on the box, a basket of freshly laundered bandages on her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  People's faces looked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through the last lap of a race already lost.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  She was a child and mad with fright and she wanted to bury her head in her mother's lap and shut out this sight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  "I--I have a pistol," she whispered, clutching the weapon in her lap, perfectly certain that if death stared her in the face, she would be too frightened to pull the trigger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  But, as twilight came, they at last entered the final lap of the long journey.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  I caught him a lap later, and although I could pass him I could not shake him off.
2  The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
3  Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
4  The lady was kissing a little lap dog.
5  Mrs Ringrose sat down and folded her hands in her lap.
6  He used to lap the page where he stopped reading.
7  He surged past the other runners on the last lap.
8  At the last lap John held him, and then began to pick up on him.
9  Come and sit on my lap and I'll read you a story.
10  He set a new lap record.
11  There's only one seat so you'll have to sit on my lap.
12  She is still going strong on the last lap.
13  The kitten used to neatly lap up her milk.
14  The summer air, the restful quiet, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting -- for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
15  She crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange.