Sap

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"Sap" in a Sentence (24 examples)

The wise teacher knew about the sap.

Poor sap. He can't tell when he's being taken advantage of.

I'm always wondering what the difference is between resin and sap.

Rubber is made from the sap of the rubber tree.

Daffodils are a common cause of dermatitis amongst florists, with daffodil sap provoking symptoms such as redness and dry, scaly skin.

The tree is secreting sap.

In spring, sap is extracted from the birch trees.

In a sugar shack in the woods, Tom and Mary boiled the sap they had collected to make maple syrup.

Anyone who works here is a sap.

Across town, another urban syrup maker now collects sap from a network of friends and neighbors, boils it down in his evaporator and returns syrup to the sap donors.

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In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song.

Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.

"Or trying to reproduce it." "The Mafia wouldn't do that." "Don't be a sap," Hiro says. "Of course they would." Y.T. seems miffed at Hiro.

She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk / Can't I ever forget the way that we are / Spend all your time with your eyes on the ground / Looking for the stars

Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main.

While Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.

Alcaraz flew out of the blocks in the first-to-10 match tie-break of the deciding set, sapping every last bit of Sinner's energy before sealing victory with a remarkable running forehand winner that fizzed down the line.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…]

to sap one’s conscience

He saps my energy.

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

[A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly — they drag him out of sight.

And when he had me up there he would sap me again and I wouldn't remember anything that happened in between the two sappings.

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