How to Use sappy in a Sentence

sappy

adjective
  • She gets all sappy when she is around babies.
  • What do all these sappy emotions have to do with loving fall?
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Your dad is supposed to walk you down the aisle, give you away, dance with you and make a sappy speech.
    — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The work is tender and sweet, yet not at all sappy or cliché—a tricky balance to strike.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • If only the rest of this sappy story stood up to his talents.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • No flowery designs and sappy messages that have long been a staple of card aisles.
    — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Not too serious or sappy, but with room for both earnestness and whimsy.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Derek has been feeling just as blissfully sappy.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Trying to nail down the perfect caption that's just the right level of sweet and sappy and clever and cute.
    — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • These aren't anything like those sappy lovey-dovey letters folks get on Survivor.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Sweet, simple, and sappy is just what the pop-culture doctor ordered.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2020
  • There is a depth to the palate; a smoky richness melds into sappy blackberries and tangy notes of soy and hoisin.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Steer away from sappy woods such as pine and starter logs treated with lighter fluid, as those will affect the flavor of your food.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • It is filled with photos, videos, costumes, and some sappy poetry from a lifelong friend and fan.
    — Verna Gates, al, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Leaving sappy love letters to my friends over voice notes on WhatsApp.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 4 May 2018
  • As Kravitz's song plays, a video montage shows sappy scenes from around the SEC.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Welsh has a distinct desire to stay away from sappy and sentimental, too tidy for such a messy story.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The sappy romance of feel-good Christmas movies has long been reserved only for straight love stories.
    — Joy Ashford, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • And this isn't the first time Chip Gaines left Joanna a sappy message on one of the silos.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Romance served as the impetus behind the brand’s Young Rose, but the scent isn’t a sappy tale.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Mushy love and sappy romance are synonymous with soft-rock balladeer Michael Bolton.
    — Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Picture the tearful parents moving their children to college in any sappy coming-of-age movie (or maybe even your own life).
    — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Queen of sappy love songs Not just a relationship guru, Delilah can jockey disc with the best of them.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • To this reality-TV binge-watcher, that would be worth every sappy rose in the world.
    — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 26 July 2018
  • Both series mix the edgy and heartfelt, mercifully avoiding the sappy.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
  • What’s the sappy, milky stuff that comes out of specific leaves in Florida that would be on the characters’ skin?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Harris makes big, dumb, fun music that's either just big, dumb, and fun or just a sappy breakup track about Taylor Swift.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 6 June 2017
  • Then their offspring — spruce beetle larvae — feed on the tree’s phloem tissue, the sometimes green, sappy layer just below that bark.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2022
  • Maple Trees Maple trees are just as sappy as birch trees, so pruning them when the sap is running can be a messy situation.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • This is a youthful, frantic, vibrant version of a musical that in the wrong hands can be sappy and operatic.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 4 Aug. 2017

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