Sentences with 'sap'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sap and other words derived from it.
• « When lightning strikes a tree, the discharge causes the sap to boil instantly, and so violently, that the tree bursts. »
• « Scandinavian tribesmen had long traded amber (petrified sap, prized as a precious stone in Rome and later throughout the Middle Ages) both with other Germanic tribes and even with the Romans directly during the Imperial period. »
• « He said that the red sap of one species was rubbed on burns; the powdered leaves of another cured fungal skin infections; the juice extracted from yet another, sweet-smelling one, was used to lose weight. »
• « In the northern part of Carolina, settlers turned pine sap into turpentine, which was used to waterproof wooden ships. »