sapping in English
our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians
They complained that they were not allowed to use bombs or to sap and mine the streets held by the insurgents, and they did not want to give quarter to anyone any more.
She sapped him again, this time in his solar plexus, and he fell, unconscious.
Use "sapping" in a sentence
1. Lack of planning is sapping the company's efficiency.
2. Synonyms for Blunting include dulling, numbing, dampening, deadening, softening, weakening, calming, cooling, sapping and tempering
3. It will force Crassus'army to march much greater distance to meet us, sapping strength and supplies.
4. They diligently paid off the debt and found ways to prune away unnecessary activities that were sapping their time and energy.
5. 21 The late afternoon slid into night, bringing a touch of frost and sapping the last of warmth and cheerfulness.
6. Four years ago, Johnson contracted food poisoning prior to the Olympics, the illness sapping his strength and ruining his conditioning.
7. Apart from sapping your energy, anemia increases the risks associated with childbirth and makes a malarial attack more likely.
8. Experts contend that “the specter of litigation is sapping productivity, creativity and human trust, creating ‘a fear to act’ in many segments of society.”
9. Careful sapping forward, supported by enfilading ricochet fire, was a key feature of this system, and it even allowed Vauban to calculate the length of time a siege would take.
10. You are probably not surprised to learn that an ongoing war is still raging, that violent crime is still rampant, or that a famine is still sapping the strength of a developing land.
11. Biowarfare Against Agriculture Most countries that had Biowarfare programs have developed weapons to target crops and farm animals, with the aim of denying food to the enemy, causing economic damage, and sapping public morale.