sap - use in sentences

Object

  • morale: The cathedral must be saved, he said damage to the fabric would sap the morale of the country.
  • insect: Red spider mites are sap sucking insects that can reduce the vigor of plants.
  • will: There are many things that can support or sap the will of programmers considering the unified model of service delivery.
  • strength: These can easily sap the strength of a poem.

Converse of object

  • rise: Incorrect pruning during late March, April and May can induce ' bleeding ' where the rising sap weeps from the tree.
  • contain: If leaves contain acidic sap, the anthocyanins will appear red and if the sap is less acidic, they will go purple.

Adjective modifier

  • milky: The active agents in all of these are either contained within the milky sap or the juice of crushed seeds.
  • sugary: Seen under the microscope these stipules have small droplet of what I assume to be sugary sap in the hollow underneath.
  • poor: The poor, naïve sap thought he would actually pick up a pencil.

Modifying Another Word

  • really: Time of year In the wetter months, the off-road sections can get extremely claggy which can really sap your energy.
  • much: The film paves a little too much sap with sobbing tragic love.
  • also: Bird droppings and tree sap also damage your cars paintwork and need removing on a regular basis, if not as soon as possible.

Noun used with modifier

  • tree: Is it mostly dry but with wet slippy bits under the trees where the tree sap has fallen?

Present participle complement

  • rise: And as the grinding gears of the plot push us ever further into a corner, we can feel the sap rising around us.

Preposition: of

  • tree: Many people are allergic to the sap of pine trees.
  • plant: Insufficient supply causes the sap of the plant to be less concentrated.

Preposition: from

  • plant: Aphids Small insects that feed by sucking the sap from plants.
  • leave: The bast is a thin layer formed of tiny channels which carry sugar sap downward from the leaves into the roots.

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