How to Use sapper in a Sentence

sapper

noun

• This means sappers must go out to the fields and quietly remove the mines.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Residents ask the sappers to check their gardens and backyards.
  — Alice Martins, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Some are sappers who advance on their bellies to find and disable enemy mines.
  — Missy Ryan, Isabelle Khurshudyan and Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• At the same time, a local sapper unit of some 20 lightly armed combat engineers learns that a cease-fire has been declared and peace talks are underway.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• To advance, Ukrainian troops must now push through these lines without tipping off Russian forces — by sending sappers out to the fields to quietly clear paths through the mines.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Hollifield's father told the judge that Sapper should have faced more serious charges that could have resulted in a longer prison sentence.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017
• Group leader Maxim Buga said Loginov, a sapper by training, departed last fall to help the Syrian army clear mines.
  — Andrew Roth, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
• There is hardly a note of the tunneling efforts that allowed British sappers, working in secret and in darkness, to place tons of high explosive in deep chambers.
  — Gl Archive, National Geographic, 6 June 2017
• But they are vastly outnumbered in her account by those who signed up to go to the front as pilots, nurses, surgeons, tank drivers, scouts, traffic controllers, sappers and more.
  — Rebecca Reich, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2017
• The bomb, hidden in a pair of wire cutters, exploded as sappers neutralized it remotely.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• In a painstakingly slow process that has set the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, small groups of sappers have often been getting down on their stomachs and crawling across minefields to clear a path for troops to advance.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• Balloons attached to an explosive fuse, that were launched from Gaza, later wafted onto a trampoline used by Kibbutz children and was dealt with by sappers, Israeli police said.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• Boucher passed the physical exam and, at 72, became a sapper—a private-grade military engineer.
  — Nick Yetto, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Though specialized mine-clearing vehicles are in use, front-line mines are so concentrated that specialized soldiers, called sappers, have had to resort to clearing paths by hand.
  — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
• Combat engineers—known as pioneers or sappers in some armies—are tasked with removing these obstacles on the battlefield and keeping the attack going.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2019
• Factor in a few other unlikely moisture-sappers—Fusco says whitening toothpastes and long-last lipsticks also contribute to dryness—and old-school salves simply might not cut it.
  — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2019
• Police teams also were working to identify and neutralize unexploded ordnance and one sapper was wounded Saturday while demining an administrative building, Klymenko said.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024