How to Use sappy in a Sentence

sappy

adjective
  • She gets all sappy when she is around babies.
  • At the risk of sounding sappy, let’s root for the trees!
    Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Good Men way back when, right down to the sappy music cues.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Add a cute and mildly sappy note, and your work is done.
    Yasmin Fahr, Bon Appetit, 12 June 2017
  • Add a cute and mildly sappy note, and your work is done.
    Yasmin Fahr, Bon Appetit, 12 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd Listen to the full playlist: The key is to strike a chord that's not too romantic or sappy.
    Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 12 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • If only the rest of this sappy story stood up to his talents.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • What do all these sappy emotions have to do with loving fall?
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • No flowery designs and sappy messages that have long been a staple of card aisles.
    CBS News, 13 Feb. 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
  • Leaving sappy love letters to my friends over voice notes on WhatsApp.
    Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 4 May 2018
  • In the olden, more golden days of Hollywood, there were 50 shades of the often-sappy staple.
    Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Sweet, simple, and sappy is just what the pop-culture doctor ordered.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The sappy reaction felt extra poignant this time around.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Sometimes Bastille sound like a less-sappy Coldplay without the same debt to Radiohead and U2.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • To this reality-TV binge-watcher, that would be worth every sappy rose in the world.
    Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 26 July 2018
  • 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
  • These aren't anything like those sappy lovey-dovey letters folks get on Survivor.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The sappy romance of feel-good Christmas movies has long been reserved only for straight love stories.
    Joy Ashford, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • It is filled with photos, videos, costumes, and some sappy poetry from a lifelong friend and fan.
    Verna Gates, al, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Mushy love and sappy romance are synonymous with soft-rock balladeer Michael Bolton.
    Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Nearly two months before Christmas your true love — ahem, that would be us — gave to thee, a schedule of sappy Hallmark and Lifetime movies.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Unable to eat the sappy, hard inner wood, which is actually dead tissue, the termites turn to the live tissue on the outer layers of the trunk.
    David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Young also reflected on the past year with El Moussa in a sappy Instagram post.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 23 July 2020
  • The lovebirds don’t shy away from PDA or writing sappy notes to one another on social media either.
    Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023

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