sapping in a sentence

Examples

1. Romanticism has led them to energy-sapping humanitarian programs.
2. Squatter colonies also tap into the lines, sapping power.
3. Sapping involved extending the trench by digging away at the end face.
4. In sapping, the ground just gives away as water comes out.
5. Sapping is common in some desert areas in America's Southwest.
6. War weariness was sapping the Union's resolve.
7. But high interest rates throw the economy into recession, sapping political support.
8. "We're sapping our reservoir of common sense ."
9. All of this is sapping workers'confidence in their ability to retire.
10. It is sapping the morale of its most precious asset, its staff.