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Example sentences for: sapping

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If every new refinement since then in the quiet sapping of our national morale has earned a numerical "column," then by now, I estimate, we must be up somewhere close to "78 th column" (applied, maybe, to producers of the weekly network TV movies about bloody domestic mayhem) and "79 th column" (airplane passengers who bring carry-on luggage that they know won't fit into the overhead storage bins) or possibly even higher.
This may be par for the course of most artistic careers; the distinction here is that he has repeated himself in ever more exalted and expensive media (reflective metals, Japanese ceramics, fresco), which just gild the funk, sapping its life.
The steel industry had lobbied ardently for the bill, claiming that imports are sapping business and eating jobs.