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sapless

ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
    a feeble old woman
    her body looked sapless
  2. destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry
    the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks

How To Use sapless In A Sentence

  • The Earth, sapless, bore no fruit; the seed lay barren for want of the rain.
  • Their development is arrested, or they are, from the beginning, poor creatures born of starvelings, and perhaps fated to give birth to pale, sapless beings like themselves. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • her body looked sapless
  • There is, says Vanessa, a huge sapless aridity in the world out there that needs slaking: In the Desert, Prime Time
  • Home Rule than that kind of sapless Nationalism, astonishingly rare in The Framework of Home Rule
  • One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can balkanize Wikipedia's uppity, insipid lynch mob into an etiolated and sapless agglomeration. Historical Christian Hairstyles
  • The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • A sapless soul one lacking strength is another way of the Decider calling the Democrats cowards, yet they are honored by the torturers presence and applaud his continued name calling. Think Progress » Bush: Iraq war is “sapping our soul.”
  • Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. The Story of My Life
  • His feet slipped over fallen deadwood and sapless branches that snapped like gunshots as he ran amongst them.
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