Sentence examples for the sapper from inspiring English sources
noun
One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer.
Life expectancy in the sapper units was low.
When I first started to read the Sapper books, I wasn't aware of the racism and antisemitism that ran through them.
In Ondaatje's novel, the sapper hoists a medievalist professor, rather than a nurse, to examine by rope and lighted flare the church fresco.
There are the sapper in "The English Patient," the high-steel rigger in the less-known "In the Skin of a Lion" and, in "Anil's Ghost," two Sri Lankan brothers: Sarath, an archaeologist, and Gamini, a doctor.
If it didn't help, it was scrapped, which only shows it will be sometime before they can replace the sapper in the breach.Charles Rei Former combat engineer in the United States Army Erlangen, GermanyJerusalem* SIR – I was dismayed by the anti-Israel bias in your article on Jerusalem ("A city that should be shared", March 6th).
Wikipedia has some backstory; the newspaper's name means "The Candle of the Sapper," from a character created by Georges Colomb in the 1890s.
The laments of the bridge builders and the sappers and the miners.
They were killed as the sappers tried to defuse unexploded ordnance in Beit Lahiya.
But the judge ruled there was not enough evidence to link Duffy to the sappers' deaths.
The sappers who silently undermined the foundations of the Church did more damage than the soldiers who stormed the walls.
After the sappers blew a hole in the wire, the infantry troops raced forward, threw themselves against the ground and opened fire.
