Examples of 'sapping' in a sentence
Meaning of "sapping"
Sap (verb) - to drain energy or resources gradually
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- present participle of sap
- The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
- The act of excavating trenches.
- The act of being struck with a sap or club.
How to use "sapping" in a sentence
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Something is sapping the breath from within me.
I think sitting in this wheelchair is sapping my strength.
Sapping forms alcoves and stubby tributaries.
I do not want her sapping his strength.
Sapping the very foundations of our prosperity.
I think this place is sapping my life force.
One mechanism that has been advanced is sapping.
You are sapping the life out of him.
Something in the atmosphere is sapping my strength.
A power sapping propeller speed reduction unit is eliminated.
This digging was referred to as sapping the enemy fortifications.
Sapping creative energy in litigation is an absolute waste of potential.
The pillow is sapping my will to live.
I do feel though that the ghosts were sapping my energy.
Kids are sapping all our energy.
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You know these repetitive disputes are sapping his strength.
They may be sapping us of our strength.
The town walls were finally breached by a combination of artillery and sapping.
Yet piracy is sapping the economy of intangible goods.
Bottas admits lack of results sapping his confidence.
It could be sapping your time where software can do it for you.
Because it really is sapping my strength.
Sapping involved extending the trench by digging away at the end face.
We start by sapping their morale.
Dwindling foreign reserves point to a negative balance of payments that is sapping central bank resources.
Something was sapping his powers of concentration.
We are talking about a woman who has alien tendrils sapping the life out of her.
Something somewhere is sapping the power of magic from the universe.
The corruption and oppression had its effect in weakening and sapping the regime.
And they might be sapping the life right out of you.
Too close a relationship with them will result in the degradation and sapping of our vitality.
Is sapping my strength.
You were literally sapping my resources.
Liquid sulfur dioxide might be the fluid responsible for sapping on Io.
The economic crisis is steadily sapping the media and journalism.
These areas are sapping energy and enthusiasm that may better be directed elsewhere.
But shorter days and longer nights are sapping your energy and motivation.
It was really sapping me of enjoying what I was doing and detracting from my friendships.
My massive manhood must have been sapping all the blood from my brain.
Nirgal Vallis that runs in two quadrangles has features looking like those caused by sapping.
But growing inequality is sapping our standing in the world from within.
Nirgal Vallis and sapping.
Hunger and poverty are sapping economic and social progress for future generations.
In some places, it seems that sapping was involved.
The Matrix is sapping all the energy of out of me.
Lord, this relentless oppression is sapping our strength.
He led the sapping operations at the Siege of Glatz and the defence of Schweidnitz.
And that means there is no more tone sapping when the pedal is off.
It 's sapping the magic from everything here.
He felt increasingly that his teaching duties were sapping his stamina for focused intellectual labour.
