ADJECTIVE
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lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
a feeble old woman
her body looked sapless -
destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry
the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks
How To Use sapless In A Sentence
- His feet slipped over fallen deadwood and sapless branches that snapped like gunshots as he ran amongst them.
- They drift apart now, halfheartedly nosing the stiff, sapless remnants of field hay; sometimes one will lift and gaze back toward the barn. Two Poems
- the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks
- In places two or three miles back from the coast there was a great deal of grass, that at a better season of the year would have been valuable; now it was dry and sapless. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
- His feet slipped over fallen deadwood and sapless branches that snapped like gunshots as he ran amongst them.
- Also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names which describe the world below — Cocytus and Styx, ghosts under the earth, and sapless shades, and any similar words of which the very mention causes a shudder to pass through the inmost soul of him who hears them. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
- The sapless conducting of Oleg Caetani meant that the performance failed to take fire.
- As you pity all sapless humans, you must pity and have understanding for the sapless priest.
- Tirukural 78: Life without love in the heart is like a sapless tree in a barren desert.
- The Earth, sapless, bore no fruit; the seed lay barren for want of the rain.