Sentence examples for sapping from inspiring English sources
noun
The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
But its global rise in popularity has come at a price, with an increasingly expanded ITU World Triathlon Series calendar bringing high-profile races but also sapping the energy of its star attractions.
Injuries have had a sapping effect.
Restrictions on sledding, which often takes place on municipal lands, at least have an apparently clear public basis: fear of city-budget sapping lawsuits.
At the same time the cost of building roads has risen faster than prices in general, further sapping the fund's value.Fingers in the dykePolitics has compounded the problem.
Millions of working-age Americans have left the labour force, sapping the country's economic potential.
Questioning the premise that APD damages the British economy by deterring overseas visitors and sapping the indirect economic benefits of air travel is corporate blasphemy.
Obama's re-election team, based in Chicago, watched with glee, hopeful that the disunity on display and a protracted, energy-sapping campaign will work to their advantage.
Their accomplishments were even more impressive given that, just after the first leg, they had won an energy-sapping and unsurprisingly feisty Scottish Cup semi-final against Dundee at Tynecastle.
For me, the only fun to be had during a World Cup usually comes from watching Fifa get to act like a terrifying cross between Galactus – the intangible planet-sapping Marvel comic entity – and the spivvy-looking one from Dad's Army (Private Walker, now you ask).
She writes of the energy-sapping boredom of "getting by", and the paradox that the poorer she gets, the more expensive her electricity becomes as the supply is moved from mains to meter.
The Saints had been on a 3-goal charge when the momentum-sapping incident occurred, but a 9-point GWS victory was a fair result in a game that never reached any heights as a spectacle.
