Manuscript gap

Usage examples of lacuna.

After that, Lacky explained how her mother Lacuna, daughter of the original Zombie Master and Millie the Ghost, whose talent was to cause print to form anywhere she chose, had lived a dull life until she got the chance to go back in time, to the year 1078, and propose marriage to the man she liked.

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In other cases, the lack of authentic details for some given episode of Hadrian's life has obliged the writer to prudent filling in of such lacunae from information furnished by contemporary texts treating of analogous experiences or events.

Here, where Hadrian's life is concerned, try to manage so that the lacunae of our texts coincide with what he himself might have forgotten.

If there are discrepancies or lacunae in this account, you must fill in the blanks yourself.

That would account for stray bits of information, without depth, and lacunae where you omitted your homework or skimped.

It seems it had an inkling of your power, despite—or because of—certain lapses of information, lacunae in the files, and such.

Everyone on this ship should remember me until the voyage ends, with some lacunae for those who nap.

Scraps of light escaped through lacunas in the roof buttresses, producing a crisscross of white beams that always seemed to fade away before they reached the ground.

It lacked the imperfect recall, the fuzziness, the additions and subtractions dictated by wishful thinking and self-interest, to say nothing of the lingerings and lacunae and backtracking that can turn memory into hours-long daydreaming.