The old lagswere laughing at one of the grave-digger's oyster-openers, when up comes Rennell.
One of the old lags would do it on his head, and fetch it easy, too.
The glazing, as usual, lags behind the architecture, and, because of its strong colour and flat drawing, is more Decorated than Perpendicular.
Count we no time lost time which lags through respect to the gods!
As the actual rate of wages pursues its rising standard, but lags somewhat behind it, it is necessary to know what determines the interval between the two, and when the interval is normal.
There is threatened a blight on the future of labor, since the standard of wages, set by the productivity of labor, does not rise as it should, and the actual rate of wages lags behind the standard by an unnaturally long interval.
Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged, arrows of light.
Fiction lagsafter truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
But the shrinking volume of deposit currency causes a further fall of prices, and once more interest lags behind and renews the process.
It is objected that the plan does not make any correction until actual deviation has occurred, and so the remedy always lags behind the disease.
Long, long these days that pass in sighing, A burden saddens every song: While time lags which should be flying, We live who would be dying.
Across the hyacinth beds The wind lags warm and sweet, Across the hawthorn tops, Across the blades of wheat.
Less bold than in days of yore, Doubting now though never before, Doubting he goes and lags the more: Is the time late?
The effectiveness of armature reaction in weakening the field is proportional to the ~sine of the angle~ by which the current lags behind the impressed pressure.
Long long these days that pass in sighing, A burden saddens every song: While time lags who should be flying, We live who would be dying.
The established law can seldom keep pace with this inner development, this growth of moral consciousness; it lags behind.
Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
Conventional morality, while sometimes over-severe against old and well-recognized sins, lags far behind in its branding of the newer forms.
The law necessarily lags behind the spread of abuses, so that "there will probably always be a running duel between anti-social action and legislation designed to check it.
Transmitted by hierarchical procedures, it lagsalong in formalism, and loses itself in "red-tape.
It takes unto itself wings and flies away, say the fortunate; it lags at a snail's pace, say the unfortunate.
A man without energy is a helpless character, and invariably lags behind his fellow mortals in the stream of life; like a cork in an eddy, he is rebuffed here and jostled there, and goes on travelling in a circle to the end of the chapter.
Notwithstanding all of the millions of acres that have been put into cultivation every year, our crop production lags behind our population.
In this respect, the State still lags behind what many believe to be the rate at which the State's holdings should be increased.
In this instance the man lags behind the law; but when the law lags behind the man, he becomes equally an anarchist.
But history is not taken down in shorthand as it occurs, and it sometimes lags a little.
The boy Kahele, who has no ambition beyond the bit of his foot-sore mustang, lags behind, taking all the dust with commendable resignation.
The consequent effect of denudation that lags behind alteration is to raise slowly the concentrated metals toward the surface, and thus subject them to renewed attack and repeated migration.
The world, smiling at the rebuff, moves on, while he lags behind, groaning over misusage, without sufficient energy to roll up his sleeves and fight his way through.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lags" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
