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Example sentences for "sappy"

Lexicographically close words:
sappers; sapphire; sapphires; sapphirine; sapping; saprophytes; saprophytic; saps; sapsucker; sapsuckers
  1. Yonder a line of men and women file across the field, seen for a moment as they pass a gateway, and the hay changes from hay-colour to green behind them as they turn the under but still sappy side upwards.

  2. Green and thick and sappy to the touch, they felt like summer, soft and elastic, as if full of life, mere rushes though they were.

  3. You are in love and are mighty sappy just at present, but you'll come round all right; yes, sir, all right after a while.

  4. And from over in the low ground came the "sqush" of the cows as they strode through the rank and sappy clover.

  5. In our top-working experiments this fact was further emphasized by a windstorm which broke off many of the sappy shoots just above where the bud was put on.

  6. The cambium in these vigorous, sappy shoots is in the most active condition possible; just the condition most suitable for the union of stock and scion.

  7. Before winter I built a chimney, and shingled the sides of my house, which were already impervious to rain, with imperfect and sappy shingles made of the first slice of the log, whose edges I was obliged to straighten with a plane.

  8. In applying the polish, which should be done immediately after oiling, the rubber should be made rather sappy with thin polish, and worked without oil.

  9. If a sappy piece of walnut should be used either in the solid or veneer, darken it to match the ground colour, and then fill in the dark markings with a feather and the black stain (see pp.

  10. I couldn't make out, either, what it was that Vee seems so amused over; for as near as I can judge she was never very strong for Sappy herself.

  11. He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.

  12. OUR ordinary Water Cresses spread forth with many weak, hollow, sappy stalks, shooting out fibres at the joints and upwards long winged leaves made of sundry broad sappy almost round leaves, of a brownish colour.

  13. Every move he makes she's right on his heels, gigglin' and simperin' at all his sappy speeches and hangin' onto his arm part of the time.

  14. Finale: Me and Vee climbin' to the top of one of them Riverside Drive busses, while Aunty dreams that she's out with Sappy Westlake, the chosen one.

  15. Seems that Sappy Westlake has come forward with an invite to a box party just as Vee is tryin' to make up her mind whether she'll go with Teddy Braden to some cotillion capers, or accept a dinner dance bid from one of the other young gents.

  16. For it's Sappy Westlake, the one I run on a siding once at a dance.

  17. Can't you think of anything but sappy romance?

  18. Beside him the cattle crunched the sappy grass in so sweet and hearty mouthfuls that he could well wish he had the taste of nature himself, and they breathed great breaths of content.

  19. Down on the roadside the cattle, black and yellow, crushed the sappy grass and mourned in bellows for their lost fields.

  20. Bundle and Go" it was any way in Campbell country from Cruachan to Cowal, from Cantyre to the march of Keppochan, and that's the fine rolling land of sappy grasses and thick woods.

  21. Summer found the folks like ourselves here, far up on sappy levels among the hills, but their sheilings more their own than ours are, with never a reiver nor a broken clan in all the land.

  22. Fat and green and fruitful may ye be, in the true and sappy root.

  23. And I know also, that in that case faith would bide green and sappy at the root, even at mid-winter, and stand out against all storms.

  24. That is the way I avoid the winter killing of the sappy growth.

  25. But, except for that sappy core of romance which twice betrayed itself in act and once in word, Tom Coutts was a dry stick.

  26. Then sow a cover crop of rye, cow peas or soy beans to take up moisture, slow up growth and prevent the late sappy condition that is often responsible for winter injury.

  27. Tree growth was thus pushed on into late fall; the trees were too sappy to stand the winter freezes and suffered from winter killing.

  28. When a tree goes into the winter with sappy wood, it is injured, and we say it is not hardy.

  29. This semi-sappy conditions following low temperatures that freeze the wood seems to be a provision of nature to restore the sap lost by evaporation.

  30. At length Mrs. Tabitha and her two daughters appeared, very smartly dressed, but not very much at their ease, and a moment afterwards Sappy announced dinner.

  31. At half-past five Mrs. Tabitha was still adding vermicelli to the soup, Minnie and Katty were still turning out jellies and blanc-manges, and Sappy the footman was still cleaning the plate.

  32. Lowell was probably not unfair in his comment: And the women he draws from one model don't vary, All sappy as maples and flat as a prairie.

  33. From such a catalogue one might expect sappy and emasculated nature poems, but once again Gilder's sanity rescues him.

  34. That this sappy part suffered greatly from the frost is an incontestible fact, but has it been entirely disorganized?

  35. We have met with some of these false sappy part of trees which are thicker on one side than the other, and which surprisingly agrees with the most general state of the sap.


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