A detachment of these people would frequently visit our trenches, take up a position and proceed to bombard the enemy's line and bomb saps with doubtful success.
The ground which we occupied soon became a network of trenches and we were always endeavouring to push forward our front line by means of T-headed saps which were ultimately linked up.
The bombardment had wrecked it, and saps had been run up to within a short distance of "Little Willie.
In some places saps and tunnels had been run out towards the German lines, so that the men making the first assault could spring suddenly from the earth.
How it saps the very life-energy of woman,--this modern prison with golden bars.
That, too, our reformers know, but dare discuss even less than the institution that saps the very life out of both men and women.
The trade in alcohol enfeebles the will, saps the resisting power, and then trades upon that enfeebled will.
Sugar, on the other hand, has its place in the saps of the plants which rise through the stems and carry up with them the mineral substances of the earth.
Just as the solar rhythm manifests in an alternating rise and fall of the saps in the plants, so also does the lunar rhythm.
The wretches whom 30 Thou namest--aye, the wind howls round them, and The dull and dropping rain saps in their bones The creeping marrow.
Sap-rollers had to be used; the heads of the saps had to be protected by sandbags and the sides by gabions, while the earth for filling had often to be brought from a long distance in the rear.
Meanwhile, however, the artillery of the attack had unquestionably become very much superior to that of the defence, and, in spite of every obstacle, the saps were pushed on to the edge of the ditch of Les Perches.
Under cover of this terrific gunfire the Allies' troops drove their saps and trenches up the very edge of the defense works, where they waited orders to take the place by storm.
As the passages between all the cells are in all directions, so the vegetable saps or fluids flow in all directions, and not to one centre as in the animal.
A stronger degree of refinement appears in these fruit-saps than in the saps of the stem, because corolla and seeds range closer to each other.
To the secreted saps belong the coloured milky juices present in particular vessels, and consisting for the most part of water with resins, as in the celandine and spurge.
The saps ascend upwards, and chiefly indeed, in the liber; on its passage different substances forming from it, which appear especially in the fruit in greatest proportion and variety.
The fall cheeses are beginning to ripen, and the winesaps are so heavy that Edwin has proudly propped up the bending boughs.
Do you know, Edwin, I believe you will realize enough off your wine saps and pippins to pay for all your furniture!
The heads of these saps were blown in by the engineers who accompanied the raiding party.
Another prisoner was captured by the 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, now in the 107th Brigade, when one of its saps north of Trescault was unsuccessfully attacked by the enemy.
The letters for men in the sapsreached them in two or at most three days.
Life after Life, to talk nonsense of this kind which is not only sheer Popery, but saps the very foundation of historic truth, was it so wonderful that I conceived him to have taught and thought like them?
It must be confessed, however, that the presence of a good many saps on the vines, makes them much more valuable as feed.
In picking, the stems should be rejected, and the saps and inferior pods, if gathered at all, be kept apart from the rest.
In picking, the pops should be refused altogether, and the saps and very dark pods go by themselves.
Many planters, however, leave the saps on the vines, saving the best only.
Once more the new saps were awakening above the long sleep of the dead.
Saps ascended everywhere around him, on the sides of the brown Pyrenees; there were longer and more tepid nights; the paths were bordered with violets and periwinkles.
Nature has sent her saps abundantly into him, and he cannot but nod dogmatically on that philosophical tree on which he is so pungent a berry.
It nourishes on saps which other branches of ideation are too narrow or rigid to take up.
It is not what is assimilated that saps a creative will, but what remains outside that ultimately invades and disrupts it.
Resist the false, soft sinfulness which saps Knowledge and judgment!
Note also how the Germans and British have run saps or trenches out to them from their front lines.
Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one's work.
The evidences of world-wide unrest which manifest themselves in violence throughout the world bid us pause and consider the means to be found to stop the spread of this contagious thing before it saps the very vitality of the nation itself.
Its saps our strength and hurts our faith in our society, and in our future together.
It is generally found alone, and always roams in search of food at night; and it is easily tamed if taken young.
This trunk, however, has not the flexibility of that of the elephant, and is incapable of holding anything.
It can, he points out, be indulged in constantly without visible degradation; but surely it saps the mind.
It can be indulged in more constantly without visible degradation; but surely it saps the powers of the mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
