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Example sentences for "sapless"

Lexicographically close words:
sapientes; sapientia; sapientiae; sapientiam; sapientum; sapling; saplings; sapo; sapodilla; sapolio
  1. Youth and beauty fly swift away, while sapless old age expels the wanton loves and gentle sleep.

  2. The last red roseleaf had fluttered silently down; the last purple sloe had fallen from its sapless stem.

  3. I did send for thee To tutor thee in stratagems of war, That Talbot's name might be in thee reviv'd When sapless age and weak unable limbs Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.

  4. To the wild woods and the plains, To the pools where winter rains Image all their roof of leaves, Where the pine its garland weaves Of sapless green, and ivy dun, Round sterns that never kiss the sun.

  5. At length the sun arose, and its beams glistened on the edges of the cliffs above, whose sapless stalks and rugged masses were covered with hoarfrost.

  6. A wild heath, whistled over by October blasts, meagrely adorned with the dry stalks of scented shrubs and the bald heads of the sapless mullein, was succeeded by a fenced field and a corn-stack.

  7. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.

  8. He had picked it up before and dropped it; he took it again from habit, though he knew it was sapless and of no use to him.

  9. From his face the blood had dried away, leaving it a dull brown, the tan of seventy harvest fields burned into the skin, a sapless brown wrinkled face like a withered oak leaf.

  10. The sighing of the wind alone is heard among their sapless branches.

  11. I have withered the grass where my hot hoofs tread, I have whitened the sapless trees, I have driven the faint-heart rains ahead To hide in their soft green seas.

  12. See the clump of wattles, standing Dead and sapless on the rise; When their boughs were full of beauty, Even to uncaring eyes, I was ever first to rifle The soft branches of their store.

  13. Then made our escape to the desart wild wilderness of Arabia; where we lived among the wild asses, upon wind, sand, and sapless ling.

  14. It is for the most part a hard sandy or gravelly plain, intersected by low rocky ranges, and either barren or productive only of some sapless shrubs and of a low thin grass.

  15. I knew him to be wanton, and to chill The raging heat of his unbridled lust, I doomed him three days' penance, judged an ill Would make him sapless as the summer's dust.

  16. The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish.

  17. These, from their laxative effects, will serve as antidotes to the dry sapless grasses, which have led to the disease.

  18. The succulent grass in the sheltered hollows of mountains is more liable to frost than a sapless herbage, and to it, owing to its moisture, the young sheep resort, devouring it eagerly to assuage their thirst.

  19. Perhaps Father Pedro is right, and this young twig of the Church is as dry and sapless as himself.

  20. And what art thou, own brother of the clod, That from his hand the crook wouldst snatch away And shake instead thy dry and sapless rod, To scare the sheep out of the wholesome day?

  21. Again it was morning, but shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sapless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.