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
• Every time someone confesses some new emotional turmoil, a sappy, saxophone-heavy score plays in the background.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
• Lincoln’s almost sappy besottedness is endearing, but in a movie that is most concerned with simply convincing people of the basic fact of his queerness, much of the nuance happens between the lines.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024