sapped

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• These clippers have steel blades and a sap groove that prevents sticky buildup from clogging up a job.

• Honeybees are known for collecting pollen, nectar and tree sap.

• Modern marshmallows no longer contain sap from their namesake, Althaea officinalis, the marshmallow plant.

• Simple phenomena, such as how sap flows down a tree trunk, are straightforward and can be captured in a few lines of code using what mathematicians call linear differential equations.

• This is a conical tube that directs the sap flow and allows you to hang a container at the bore hole.

• Fighting words like those that propelled his team to the top of the industry, but it looks like that drive might have been sapped.

• Long periods of ball-play sapped speed from the Americans, who were relying on fleet counter-attacks to score against the Germans.

• Bad leadership and worse commanders rapidly sapped the morale of his unit, which became notorious for its lack of discipline.

• They can be sapped of war fever by the diplomatic courage and genius displayed by Kissinger and Nixon four decades ago.

• Online distractions have sapped the will to compete, let alone the will to win.

• He spoke in low, earnest tones, and as he did so, Dick felt as though his moral manhood were being sapped.

• I have been very busy trying to get ahead of a German trench which they had sapped up to us.