Word Finder - lap

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The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.

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The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered

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A place of rearing and fostering

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The upper legs of a seated person.

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The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.

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The female pudenda.

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A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.

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To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

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To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.

She sat in my lap and hugged me tightly.

She set the paper on her lap and stared at it.

He wanted to warn the young man to wear a bulletproof vest and keep his hands in his lap for protection.

You just gave me a lap dance, and my comment is making you blush?

Carmen climbed off Alex's lap and took Destiny's soft little hand in hers.

She sat in my mother's lap constantly, where I used to sit, and seemed to take up all her care and time.

For a long time I was still--I was not thinking of the beads in my lap, but trying to find a meaning for "love" in the light of this new idea.

He placed a cool canteen on her lap.

Once there, she dropped her head to Jackson's lap and quickly fell asleep.

Elisabeth sat with Jackson's head in her lap, her tears dropping on his face.

She sat on her bed, cross-legged, a book in her lap.

Claudette folded her hands in her lap.

Darian had a plate of cookies in his lap and milk on the table.

Both hands rested in her lap as she studied it for two full rotations.

She tossed the picture in his lap again and made a face.

He reached down and grabbed her by the arms, pulling her up into his lap.

She lets me kiss her now, and when she is in a particularly gentle mood, she will sit in my lap for a minute or two; but she does not return my caresses.

Betsy raced up to the bedroom and returned with her lap top computer.

She began working on her lap top vigorously.

She sat on one of two fold-out chairs in the concrete room, legs crossed and hands in her lap.

Dean changed the subject by holding up the shopping bag from his lap.

Fred O'Connor finished reading the latest pages as Mrs. Lincoln crawled onto his lap.

Fred O'Connor sat in the parlor, a Sue Grafton novel in his lap, snoring softly.

He was holding court with Fred O'Connor in the parlor, a plate of potato chips and a tuna salad sandwich on his ample lap.

He lay on the sofa with his head in Elisabeth's lap.

Elisabeth moved close to him and lay down again with her head in his lap.

Elisabeth jumped up and put her head in his lap again.

With a husky breath, she dropped to his lap, dove both hands into his hair and pulled his head back, planting a hard kiss on his lips.

Dan dropped beside her, and the two lifted Brady's body from her lap and stretched him out.

The Rig-Veda contains only one allusion to them, where it is said that " Soma is placed in the lap of the nakshatras "; and this is in a part including later interpolations.

When the teeth are full the machine is stopped, and the silk stripped off the drum, then presenting a sheet-like appearance technically known as a " lap."

His final lap tally for the day was 72 laps.

I only know that I sat in my mother's lap or clung to her dress as she went about her household duties.

Natasha, who was sitting opposite to him with her eldest daughter on her lap, turned her sparkling eyes swiftly from her husband to the things he showed her.

A small packet wrapped in tissue fell to her lap.

She joined him, sitting on the sofa and pulling one of Cynthia's quilts across her lap.

Fred grumbled, but Dean just slapped his back and began to whistle, as if he didn't have a care in the world, while his mind turned like a racecar piston on the final lap.

He placed the tray across her lap.

Oh my God, she's really on your lap?

He must have nodded off again, because when he opened his eyes, Elisabeth's human form lay sleeping with her head in his lap.

They were on the sofa, Connor lying down with his head in her lap.

Jackson took her hand and pulled her to his lap.

After she finished drinking, she approached Jackson, licked his face, and put her head in his lap.

This one … Brady shook his head at the woman in his lap.

At one point, the girl dropped her napkin and the boy reached beneath the table, picked it up, and replaced it daintily on her lap.

He munched on a leftover casserole some thoughtful neighbor had donated to poor hero Fred and was about to doze when the telephone startled Mrs. Lincoln from his lap.

Maybe laying the decision in his lap made him feel better about it.

He leaned forward, dropping the paper to his lap.

His warm fingers circled her wrist and the foot came down, making room for her on his lap.

Sinking into his lap, her arms surrounded his neck.