sapper
IPA: sˈæpɝ
noun
- A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
- (Britain, colloquial) An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
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Examples of "sapper" in Sentences
- I'm glad to hear you're a sapper.
- Baruch was trained to be a sapper.
- Yes, even with sapper trains and whatnot.
- The term is in principle similar to sapper.
- The name is a reference to the sapper Camembert.
- She is informed of what happened to the sapper crew.
- Sapper armies were made up of two to four sapper brigades.
- More Sappers landed to continue the clearance of the beaches.
- TOM BOWMAN: Specialist Jenkins was a sapper, a combat engineer.
- A similar military occupation to the pioneer is that of a sapper.
- While with this unit, Source received training in sapper techniques.
- Designation as a sapper nowadays is earned as an additional proficiency.
- One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam.
- There was a psychological moment as the crouching man came up into the trench with his rifle and bayonet, when his chin was in the perfect position: moreover, the sapper was a full back of merit.
- The president of Francisco Marroquin University drove me and a half dozen other American reporters to his campus in an armored vehicle preceded by a sapper squad, checking for potential land mines in its path.
- The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
- The tome ended his England career because he criticised the then manager, Clive Woodward, and was deemed an energy sapper; he once admitted that he had a personality trait where he could go from being relatively calm to relatively insane quite quickly, describing his behaviour as sometimes less than ideal.
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