Tonle Sap

[ ton-ley -sahp ]

/ ˈtɒn leɪ ˌsɑp /

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noun

a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.

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Words nearby Tonle Sap

tonight, tonk, tonka bean, Tonkin, Tonkinese, Tonle Sap, tonlet, ton-mile, tonn., tonnage, tonnage deck

How to use Tonle Sap in a sentence

Anybody with any sap running will probably be out of step with the general parade, at least early on.
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Like a picador, he takes his time to sap the strength of his foes before clubbing them unconscious.
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An increase in the dividend tax rate is likely to sap the value of stocks whose main appeal is the dividends they throw off.
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Put another way, the termination of these benefits will sap $30 billion from the buying power of lower-income American consumers.
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AQAP wants to drag America into what it calls another “bleeding war” like Afghanistan and Iraq to sap American resources and will.
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All this bubbling of sap and slipping of sheaths and bursting of calyxes was carried to her on mingled currents of fragrance.
Summer|Edith Wharton
“You would sap the very source of human happiness and enterprise,” Professor Fortescue asserted, fantastically.
The Daughters of Danaus|Mona Caird
But now the sap and the strength flow again within me,—now I am young once more.
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Let the unopened leaves, cut from the stalk, stand in a cool shady place several days, until the sap has well run.
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Spring stole into the heart of the Wabash country and the sap sang again in maples and elms.
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British Dictionary definitions for Tonle Sap

Tonle Sap

/ (ˈtɒnlɪ ˈsæp) /

noun

a lake in W central Cambodia, linked with the Mekong River by the Tonle Sap River . Area: (dry season) about 2600 sq km (1000 sq miles); (rainy season) about 10 000 sq km (3860 sq miles)

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