SAP in a Sentence
Learn SAP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
21 example sentences for SAP, such as:
1. Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy.
2. But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends.
3. The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.
4. I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength.
5. The series of steep hills sapped the cyclists'strength.
2. But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends.
3. The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.
4. I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength.
5. The series of steep hills sapped the cyclists'strength.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SAP
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
sap
v. diminish; undermine the foundations; dig
Classic Sentence:
1 He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes.
2 But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends.
3 The rest have gone under because they didn't have any sap in them, because they didn't have the gumption to rise up again.
4 To the sterile winter air the wood gave a scent of March sap.
5 Her skin, so brown and hardened, had not that look of flabbiness, as if the sap beneath it had been secretly drawn away.
6 It was a warm spring day, with a perfume of earth and of yellow flowers, many things rising to bud, and the garden still with the very sap of sunshine.
7 The leaves of the hollyhocks hung like half-closed umbrellas, the sap almost simmered in the stems, and foliage with a smooth surface glared like metallic mirrors.
8 "Yes, they draw away all the sap and give a false appearance of prosperity," he muttered, stopping to write, and, feeling that she was looking at him and smiling, he looked round.
9 He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.
10 He was going to win, to win: not as he had won with his stories, mere publicity, amid a whole sapping of energy and malice.
11 His age may not have been more than three or four and thirty, but his haggard expression and unhealthy hue told of a life which has sapped his strength and robbed him of his youth.
Example Sentence:
1 The element kryptonite has an unhealthy effect on Superman: it can sap his strength.
2 Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees.
3 We get maple syrup from the sap that can exude from the trees in early spring.
4 The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.
5 You can also take pine sap from a pine tree to burn for a while.
6 The high concentration of sugars forms a syrup when the sap evaporates.
7 Looking after her dying mother had sapped all her energy.
8 I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength.
9 The series of steep hills sapped the cyclists'strength.
10 Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy.