saps

Example Sentences

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Drought also saps hydropower output, driving natural-gas and coal burning, something that happened in China during the last El Niño.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The fight for new capital saps investment from other sectors, while meeting increasingly grandiose ambitions requires more computing power, which in turn demands more energy, which stokes energy price increases, and so on.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Forced to smear herself with a lotion that Teddy claims saps her powers, she does it with feathery spa fingers like she’s getting a facial.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

But doing so saps its sensitivity, as doubling a cylinder’s resonant frequency would require shrinking it to one-eighth its original volume.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024

It saps his energy, but he runs on.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario