sapper in a sentence
Examples
- See chart for detailed breakdown of a typical sapper raiding party.
- Saps were excavated by brigades of trained sappers or instructed troops.
- Designation as a sapper nowadays is earned as an additional proficiency.
- To Guardsman Tracy Evens, the Sapper Hill positions looked impregnable:
- Later he was disarmed, and sappers detonated the bombs safely.
- Major Dinwiddie's Sappers took the bridge apart by hand.
- Shortly thereafter, the target, probably a sapper, sank.
- If discovered, the sappers often sprang up and attacked immediately.
- The Madras Sapper companies were G, H and K Companies.
- Prototypes were constructed by sappers and launched on the Brisbane River.