lapped

Example Sentences

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Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw like any spring sap.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lapped by the prayers of years, we sit in silence.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

Yet thou so wise and strong Suddenly summoned to the burial bed, Lapped in its slumbers deep and ever long, Hear'st not the tumult surging over head.

From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving

Once a ripple came to land In the golden sunset burning— Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning.

From The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard

Culture's child, Lapped in luxurious laws of line and lilt, Shrank from him shuddering, who was roughly built As cyclopean temples.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 9, 1892 by Various