The first manifestations tend to be occasional lapses in recent memory.

After that, though there were occasional brief lapses, the child was able to maintain her good behavior with very little effort.

I was fortunate, as a child, to see an occasional lapse into the old genre on Broadway.

She does, alas, suffer from an occasional lapse of judgment.

I'd think he'd at least show occasional mental lapses or momentary confusion.

An occasional lapse in English doesn't make an alien an ignoramus.

But the lovely view makes up for occasional lapses.

At the end of the next year he went back to Scotland, and devoted himself to art, with an occasional lapse into literature.

He is so good he probably will, despite his occasional lapses.

Off the field, Marsh has suffered from occasional lapses of discipline.