SAP in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for SAP, such as:

1. Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy.
2. The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.
3. But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends.
4. I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength.
5. The series of steep hills sapped the cyclists'strength.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAP
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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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  To the sterile winter air the wood gave a scent of March sap.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Her skin, so brown and hardened, had not that look of flabbiness, as if the sap beneath it had been secretly drawn away.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 15
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
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.