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• In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.From the entry sugarbush
• Metroidvanias are an inherently clever genre, and the cleverness can sometimes sap a little of the energy.2019 June 18, Christian Donlan, “Gato Roboto review - a pet-sized Metroidvania filled with delights”, in Eurogamer. From the entry Metroidvania
• Tequila is distilled Mexican liquor that comes from the fermented sap of a particular cactus.2007, “Bartending”, in Learning & Living in the 21st Century Iv for H.s.' 2007 Ed., 2007 edition, Rex Bookstore, Inc., →ISBN, page 333. From the entry piñarita
• A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap.1994, “Sugaring Off”, in Nindinawemaagan Giwitaa'ayeyii, volume 6, page 55. From the entry sugar
• I want you to scumble the bottom third with sap green.1987, Bernard MacLaverty, short story. "The Drapery Man" (published in The Great Profumo and Other Stories, Jonathan Cape, 1987) - p.35. From the entry scumble
• Three leavesful of sap are poured on a cut to stop bleeding.1974, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 245. From the entry leafful
• The forty-spotted pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) is the first Australian bird found to encourage trees to release manna, a sugary crystallised sap.2016 March 12, “Mining bird farms trees for manna”, in New Scientist, number 3064, page 16. From the entry pardalote
• The milky sap (latex) is highly irritating , and can produce serious inflammation of the eyes and skin.2015 November 12, J.T. Sibley, “Caper spurge, paper spurge, gopher spurge, mole plant, petroleum plant (Hagevortemelk) [Garden wart milk]…. From the entry paper spurge
• These insects sit on the veins of tree leaves, sucking their sap and excreting a sugary solution known as lerp.2010, Wendy Zukerman, “Receding gums”, in New Scientist, page 44. From the entry lerp
• Sap from this plant can cause a severe rash.2000 May 1, Susan Scott, Craig Thomas, Poisonous Plants of Paradise: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Injuries from Hawaii's Plants…. From the entry red spurge
• Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives.1984, Audre Lorde, “I Am Your Sister”, in Let Nobody Turn Us Around, page 520. From the entry womanhating
• I see morningfuls of sun, Fermenting sap inside the tree.1978, The Romantist - Issues 1-5, page 26. From the entry morningful
• Maple sugar is crystallized from the concentrated sap of maple.1975, Lendal H[enry] Kotschevar, Quantity Food Purchasing, second edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 352. From the entry concrete
• However, young Lochinvar has gone out of the West—verbum sap.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry verbum sap
• The mukonde (candelabra tree) was a four-sided cactus like plant with a poisonous white sap, although a rhino had no problems chewing the fresh shoots.2019, Dr. Ross Gordon Cooper, Crocodile Creek tree house, page 11. From the entry candelabra tree
• The sap of this species was able to cause loss of corneal epithelium 16 h after direct exposure to the sap in a 60-year-old male.2014 May 30, Victor Kuete, Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 505. From the entry epithelium
• Blindage covering the tops of saps could simply consist of sandbags, or a layer of fascines laid over the crest of the parapet.2013, Ron Field, American Civil War Fortifications. From the entry blindage
• Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.2007, Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds, page 352. From the entry router
• Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.1997, Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills, page 76. From the entry scorching
• Under a new, heavy snow it is only pinebranches cracking, like bone: their gold sap will make resin for my sister’s violin.1979 fall/winter, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, New York, N.Y.: Herbert Leibowitz, page 288. From the entry pinebranch
• “I guess the warm weather makes the sap run,” remarked a débonnaire police chief while surveying the weekend quota of vandalism in an eastern town.1969, Bernard Rudofsky, Streets for People: A Primer for Americans, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 330. From the entry débonnaire
• The beat of its wee heart held against her own, sent her intense maternity surging like the spring sap in a young tree.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry wee
• It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them.1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain. From the entry foodful
• Living a lie saps us of integrity and moral cohesion to the point that we can no longer distinguish between the artifice being propped up and the real world.2023 June 22, Charles Hugh Smith, 2023-2030: Artifice Vs. Doom-Loops. From the entry integrity
• Cars often pick up bits of road tar and asphalt, dried bugs, tree sap, or other debris that’s hard to remove with regular car wash soap.2020 April 16, Thom Dunn, Rik Paul, “How to Wash and Detail a Car the Right Way”, in The New York Times—Wirecutter. From the entry pick up
• Landowners and forest rangers in Maine are facing a surprising problem: thieves have been illegally tapping maple trees and stealing the gooey sap to make maple syrup.2013 April 13, “Caught sticky-handed”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul…. From the entry tap
• When laying hedges, notches (pleaches) are cut in branches that are to be bent (the bent bits must go upwards, otherwise the sap will not run).2009, Tony Atkins, “Unrestrained and Restrained Workplaces: Dynamic Cutting”, in The Science and Engineering of Cutting: The Mechanics and…. From the entry pleach
• Neither the inoculated leaves nor the uninoculated subsequent leaves of susceptible variety of Ambili showed symptoms when back inoculated with sap from Nigerian Local in case of PMV.2007, K. V. Peter, Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops, page 238. From the entry PMV
• The adults are either stupid, wicked or saps, like Cody’s mum, who removes a pair of nailclippers from her son because she doesn’t think he should carry a weapon.2004 March 12, Susan Walker, “U.S.-Brit culture clash great fun for spy kids”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F3…. From the entry nailclippers
• The rabbi under the silk wedding canopy, held up by split triangular poles of quartered eucalyptus exuding an aromatic sap, is ill at ease but ready for business.1971, Bernard Malamud, The Tenants. From the entry Litvak
• The Papuans of New Guinea in their intoxicating sagwire, prepared from the sap of the palm, illustrate the transition to a fluid medium for the same purpose.1931, Julius Lippert, translated by George Peter Murdock, The Evolution of Culture, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 194. From the entry sagwire

Meaning of sap

1. noun The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. noun The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. noun Any juice.

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Questions about sap in a sentence

How do you use sap in a sentence?

Sap is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.”

What is a short sentence with sap?

“He saps my energy.”

What does sap mean?

Sap means the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.