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But I think all the years of camping in Girl Guides, with my parents, and then with some super granola boyfriends have kind of sapped me of my camping spirit.

» Confessions of a Hippie Mama Strocel.com 2009

I’d studied the report, memorized its key phrases, enjoying the way the legalistic terms sapped the color from what had happened.

Wired Robin Wasserman 2010

I was his elder by half a year, and "sapped" very hard, while he laboured little; so that it will be plain at a glance, although he never acknowledged it, that he was the better endowed of the two with natural ability.

George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore 1862

10-Qs that rising material costs have kind of sapped the project per dollar of available funding support.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

10-Qs that rising material costs have kind of sapped the project per dollar of available funding support.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

10-Qs that rising material costs have kind of sapped the project per dollar of available funding support.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

That struggle divided the party, wasted weeks of staff time, sapped our fund-raising efforts, and introduced poison into what should have been a triumphant season.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

The idea that we tricked the Soviets into invading Afghanistan sounds clever in retrospect, now that we know the invasion proved to be a catastrophe that sapped Soviet military strength for nearly a decade.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

The idea that we tricked the Soviets into invading Afghanistan sounds clever in retrospect, now that we know the invasion proved to be a catastrophe that sapped Soviet military strength for nearly a decade.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

We sapped our emotional strength with divisive feuds.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010