saps

Example Sentences

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“That’s how the SAPs work. Certainly members of Congress know that.”

From Washington Times

The impacts of SAPs on the world’s poor populations have only compounded over the past decades.

From Scientific American

"It just saps you of all your energy. You're just constantly sweating. Constantly having to drink water all of the time," he said.

From BBC

Not only butterflies can get drunk to some degree by sucking substances with psychopharmacological effects, but as it is well known also to beetle collectors that many beetle species can be lured with alcohol-containing saps, some of which develop naturally if sugar-containing sap ferments by virtue of microbes present in nature.

From Salon

Translating from a Romance language, whose words end in soft vowels, saps some of the soothing sway, according to Jobim’s son Paulinho, a musician.

From Seattle Times