Explore Sapper through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sapper meaning
- 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.
- An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
Synonyms of Sapper
Using Sapper
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
- Useful related words include: army engineer, military engineer.
- In the example corpus, sapper often appears in combinations such as: elly sapper, and sapper, sapper james.
Context around Sapper
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sapper
- In this selection, "sapper" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, elly, dennis, honour, james, stone and kim stand out and add context to how "sapper" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pre sapper course for and air assault sapper pathfinder etc. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sapper" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sapper
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The French Army, including the Legion disbanded its regimental sapper platoons in 1870. (13 words)
The Sapper benefits greatly from Whiskey's ability to sniff out mines quickly. (13 words)
While being defused, the bomb exploded, killing one sapper and injuring two others. (13 words)
The sentence brings to a close the decades-long fight by sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper for justice after their abuse at the hands of the respected mentor and mother-of-eight. (33 words)
Kip Triumph 3HW 350cc motorcycle used by Kip in the novel Kirpal (Kip) Singh is an Indian Sikh who has volunteered with the British military for sapper bomb disposal training under Lord Suffolk. (33 words)
An Army Spokesperson said: 'It is with great sadness that we can confirm the death of Sapper Kim Mawa at Swinton Barracks, Perham Down on 7 May 2024. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Dennis 'Sapper' Stone, who died aged 88 last month, was born in Beckery, Glastonbury.
Leifer was the principal of Melbourne’s ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel School when she abused sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper between 2004 and 2007.
Sapper who was originally from Boulder, Colorado, was working as a first-year hand crew member in the Gold Beach Ranger District.
The sentence brings to a close the decades-long fight by sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper for justice after their abuse at the hands of the respected mentor and mother-of-eight.
The two former students she was convicted of abusing, Erlich and Sapper, were in court for the verdicts.
An Army Spokesperson said: 'It is with great sadness that we can confirm the death of Sapper Kim Mawa at Swinton Barracks, Perham Down on 7 May 2024.
The centre has a special display to honour Sapper Lieutenant John Stone, from Preston, who played a key role in the D-Day Landings.
From left: Elly Sapper, Dassi Erlich and Nicole Meyer at the Jerusalem District Court last year.
He coordinated a pre-sapper course for himself, did all the prerequisites, and even built his own packet.
Hekmatullah has spent seven years in jail after murdering Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate in August 2012 while they were playing cards.
Private Robert Poate, Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic and Sapper James Martin were murdered by Afghan army sergeant, Hekmatullah, who was later captured and sentenced to death.
As a boy, Fleming devoured the Bulldog Drummond tales of Lieutenant Colonel H. C. McNeile (aka "Sapper") and the Richard Hannay stories of John Buchan.
Development of agriculture and the Camp further One of the remaining historic corrals at Sapper Hill, near Stanley.
For Alessi the '80s are marked with some iconic designs like the Two tone kettle by Sapper, their first cutlery set Dry by Castiglioni.
He became a sapper in the Engineers Survey section, doing much the same work that he did as a civilian.
Kip Triumph 3HW 350cc motorcycle used by Kip in the novel Kirpal (Kip) Singh is an Indian Sikh who has volunteered with the British military for sapper bomb disposal training under Lord Suffolk.
The French Army, including the Legion disbanded its regimental sapper platoons in 1870.
The Sapper benefits greatly from Whiskey's ability to sniff out mines quickly.
The schools include Airborne, Air Assault, Sapper, Pathfinder, etc. citation Active duty officers in the rank of captain or major serve as Company Tactical Officers (TAC Officers).
While being defused, the bomb exploded, killing one sapper and injuring two others.
Common combinations with sapper
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: