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lap

noun as in orbit, circuit

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verb as in slosh, wash against

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verb as in overlap

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Even with my eyes shut, I somehow see the waves lapping against the shore behind the tall thicket.

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She found a pillow to prop next to the old woman’s head and tucked a lap blanket around her legs, but she did not leave right away.

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Flummoxed, she dropped the letter into her lap.

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Penelope returned to her chair as if in slow motion; when she folded her hands in her lap, her knuckles turned white.

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Now it lay in her lap, jostled back and forth with every lurch of the train.

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