SAPS

abbreviation for

South African Police Service

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cato/cata

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Words nearby SAPS

saprophagous, saprophyte, saprotroph, saprozoic, saprozoonosis, SAPS, sapsago, sapsucker, Sapulpa, sapwood, Saqqara

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Example sentences from the Web for SAPS

It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair.
The Night Vince Lombardi Lay Awake Brooding Over a 49-0 Win|W.C. Heinz|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah.
How to Cure Your Anxiety? Read Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady,’ Of Course.|Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkind|September 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Sex Addiction EpidemicChris Lee, Newsweek It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth.
The Week's Best Longreads|David Sessions|December 3, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Besides, complaining about McConnell only saps valuable time away from objecting vehemently to Joe Lieberman.
Things to Stop Bitching About in 2010|Tina Brown|January 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST

It was great fun to go into the saps and surprise the two or three men who (p. 236) were on guard in them.
The Great War As I Saw It|Frederick George Scott
In picking, the pops should be refused altogether, and the saps and very dark pods go by themselves.
The Peanut Plant|B. W. Jones
They are working in a spirit which saps their manhood and injures their self-respect as members of the community.
Manpower|Lincoln Clarke Andrews
It saps our strength; it gives us no peace; it exposes a wider surface to pain.
Essays in Rebellion|Henry W. Nevinson
Christianity, faithfully interpreted, saps the foundations of the civil law, and this was always understood from the very outset.
The Kingdom of God is Within You, What is Art|Lyof N. Tolstoi

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