How to Use sapper in a Sentence

sapper

noun

• This means sappers must go out to the fields and quietly remove the mines.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Residents ask the sappers to check their gardens and backyards.
  — Alice Martins, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Some are sappers who advance on their bellies to find and disable enemy mines.
  — Missy Ryan, Isabelle Khurshudyan and Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• Ruslan Tyshchenko was a sapper who defused bombs in Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine.
  — Carol Guzy, NPR, 22 Feb. 2026
• The bomb, hidden in a pair of wire cutters, exploded as sappers neutralized it remotely.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• With the sappers making rapid progress, Stott retreated to find a place to observe the demolition.
  — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• The company has also devised a personal shield to protect sappers from shrapnel.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• Hollifield's father told the judge that Sapper should have faced more serious charges that could have resulted in a longer prison sentence.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017
• At the same time, a local sapper unit of some 20 lightly armed combat engineers learns that a cease-fire has been declared and peace talks are underway.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
• The military sapper points toward a hand-size, green Russian anti-personnel mine with a black rubber pressure plate.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• But they are vastly outnumbered in her account by those who signed up to go to the front as pilots, nurses, surgeons, tank drivers, scouts, traffic controllers, sappers and more.
  — Rebecca Reich, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2017
• There is hardly a note of the tunneling efforts that allowed British sappers, working in secret and in darkness, to place tons of high explosive in deep chambers.
  — Gl Archive, National Geographic, 6 June 2017
• To advance, Ukrainian troops must now push through these lines without tipping off Russian forces — by sending sappers out to the fields to quietly clear paths through the mines.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Russian defenses stretched for miles, forcing sapper teams to crawl on their stomachs at twilight to spot and disarm mines under enemy drone surveillance and artillery fire.
  — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• The report also said the sappers continue to come under Ukrainian artillery and drone fire, which Reuters was also unable to confirm.
  — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 14 Nov. 2025
• Both men were sappers, military engineers who specialized in the repair of fortifications, roads and bridges—or, in this case, destroying them.
  — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• Combat engineers—known as pioneers or sappers in some armies—are tasked with removing these obstacles on the battlefield and keeping the attack going.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2019
• Boucher passed the physical exam and, at 72, became a sapper—a private-grade military engineer.
  — Nick Yetto, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Though specialized mine-clearing vehicles are in use, front-line mines are so concentrated that specialized soldiers, called sappers, have had to resort to clearing paths by hand.
  — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
• Group leader Maxim Buga said Loginov, a sapper by training, departed last fall to help the Syrian army clear mines.
  — Andrew Roth, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
• In a painstakingly slow process that has set the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, small groups of sappers have often been getting down on their stomachs and crawling across minefields to clear a path for troops to advance.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• Factor in a few other unlikely moisture-sappers—Fusco says whitening toothpastes and long-last lipsticks also contribute to dryness—and old-school salves simply might not cut it.
  — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2019
• Balloons attached to an explosive fuse, that were launched from Gaza, later wafted onto a trampoline used by Kibbutz children and was dealt with by sappers, Israeli police said.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• At another session on mines, another sapper who gives the name Oleksandr tests boot attachments made in Ukraine that elevate a de-miner several inches off the ground, to protect against cluster munitions.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• Kerley was in a line of six runners who had to be called out of the blocks three times — an energy sapper — first for a sprinter to re-tie his shoe, then twice more when the false-start signal went off, but early motion was, apparently, undetectable and nobody was disqualified.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
• There are different ways to demine territory, from using dogs to sniff out land mines to sappers—combat engineers focusing on clearing mines—manually working their way through an area, or operators remotely controlling large demining machines.
  — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• Police teams also were working to identify and neutralize unexploded ordnance and one sapper was wounded Saturday while demining an administrative building, Klymenko said.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022