13 examples of sappy in sentences
The sappy cedars, tall like stately towers, High flying birds do harbour in their bowers; The holy storks that are the travellers, Choose for to dwell and build within the firs; The climbing goats hang on steep mountains' side; The digging conies in the rocks do bide.
Here lindens and the sappy pine increased; 170 Here, when gay flowers his smiling orchard dressed, As many blossoms as the spring could show, So many dangling apples mellowed on the bough.
"This skunk of a John Gaspar gets Sally all tied up with his sappy talk.
Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari [Lat.]; younger, junior; hebetic^, unfledged.
Adj. liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous^; fluent &c (flowing) 348. liquefied &c 335; uncongealed; soluble.
The pith is soft, spongy and somewhat sappy.
"Sappy," Ingrid had declared impatiently.
Joe could think of nothing to say that wasn't sappy, so he said nothing.
It was a sappy May day.
She dug, she clipped, she explored, inhaling, with little thrills, the faint mounting odour of forest loam and sappy stems.
Above it the lovage extends its sappy stalk, while higher still the Virgin's tears hang out their rosy tendrils.
Water does not flow out of boards and timbers of its own accord, but must be evaporated, though it may be forced out of very sappy specimens by heat.
In the room below, her father and the eldest boy were resting; and through the rafters of the flooring she could hear them both: her father a large, fluent, well-seasoned, self-comforting bassoon; and her brother a sappy, inexperienced bassoon trying to imitate it.