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How to use ape in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Ape means an anthropoid of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. Example: “We were ape over the new look.”

Examples of ape by meaning

nounA person who invests in meme stock, especially one who uses subreddits such as /r/wallstreetbets.

  • But in all likelihood the meme-stock phenomenon is here to stay--even if Cohen and his ilk are profiting off the backs of the "apes" who support them.2022 September 12, Ryan Cohen, “The Money Game: Jen Wieczner”, in New York, volume 55, number 19, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, pages 14-15
  • The argument that apes were incompetent investors was particularly reliant on one term: loss porn.2024 May, Linea Munk Petersen, “Everything you need to know about WallStreetBets: An explainer of the online forum behind the GameStop...
  • With the economy humming and the stock market near record highs, the “apes” are back—and “in full-on risk mode.”2025 August 8, “DORKs: The return of ‘meme stock’ mania”, in Week, volume 25, number 1247, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 33

verbTo imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.

  • It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume...
  • Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 180

adjectiveWild; crazy.

  • We were ape over the new look.
  • He went ape when he heard the bad news.
  • Now we just need to create hype around the South Park Sucks Now digital coin, so we need to come up with things to give people FOMO and make them ape even harder.2025 October 31, Trey Parker, “The Woman in the Hat”, in South Park, season 28, episode 2, spoken by Kyle Schwartz

More sentences with ape

  • The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.From the entry bond
  • Humans share common ancestors with other apes.From the entry human
  • The two ape bands went on to co-feed in the same tree, or forage alongside each other for different foods.From the entry co-feed
  • Look at the ghastly arrivistes, aping their betters and weeping into their detumescent soufflés.2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry detumescent
  • Please don’t bid or pay for these stolen apes,” he wrote on Twitter.2021 November 3, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Man Upset That Hackers Stole His Bored Ape NFTs”, in VICE, archived from the original on…. From the entry pfp
  • The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive.2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The Ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes Ends Up Surrendering to Formula”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry bleeding edge
  • Shovel-handed ape!” The blood-laced eyes of Ruthlen Beauson bagged gibbously behind their horn-rimmed lenses.2011, Richard Matheson, Steel: And Other Stories, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry shovel-handed
  • As you can see, I am far less hairful than an ape.2010, Peter Josyph, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, page 102. From the entry hairful
  • Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.2009, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Basic Books, page 4. From the entry habiline
  • For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior.2008, Robert Engelman, More. From the entry dadlike
  • Fay Wray was hoisted into the air by the love-struck ape.2003 July 7, New Yorker, page 84. From the entry love-struck
  • "Is he that skinny silverback ape down on the first floor?"2003, Andrew W. Greeley, The Bishop goes to the University, page 121. From the entry silverback
  • See, I'm not like some of the alt.horrorians who hate aping.2001 February 27, Ringo, “Is PREACHER a good horror comic?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 17 May 2022. From the entry alt.horrorian
  • It happens to be a poor attempt, since apes, tyrannosaurs, and plucked chickens are also featherless bipeds.1996, Steven W. Horst, “Causal and Stipulative Definitions of Semantic Terms”, in Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality: A Critique of…. From the entry featherless biped
  • "How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?"1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry glass jaw
  • “I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI. From the entry blue-eyed
  • In negroes and in anthropoid apes, the index finger is much shorter than the ring finger.1939, James Bridie, One Way of Living, page 196. From the entry apess
  • One wishes to be anew Smollett; another, to out-Tarzan the chronicler of apes.1926, Albert E. Bull, Authorship And Journalism, London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, page 49. From the entry out-Tarzan
  • We can only say that it is either an ape-like man or a man-like ape."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry manlike
  • With the low, guttural snarl of the bull ape he sprang for the Frenchman.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 45. From the entry bull
  • “In fact, the apes live with us, and have for many ages.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 172. From the entry mate
  • It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 102. From the entry anthropoid
  • He had started life an ape—as an ape he would die.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 198. From the entry forswear
  • Many of the adults had been little apes during his boyhood.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 196. From the entry overlong
  • He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.1911, Jack London, “Chapter XI”, in The Cruise of the Snark. From the entry cavort
  • In Borneo the red ape inhabits the swampy forest-tract at the foot of the mountains.1911, The Encyclopaedia Britannica. From the entry red ape
  • I aped the accent of a nonnative speaker.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 162. From the entry nonnative
  • To judge from its sinuses, Hispanopithecus crusafonti is the earliest known hominine (the group including all great apes except orangs).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 115. From the entry orang
  • Apes leap to and fro, ape men swing from trees, and even a giant, menacing spider gets in on the act.2013 July 25, The Battle Creek Enquirer, Michigan, page 3. From the entry apeman
  • Griphopiths from all locations have shared derived characters that make them unique and very different from the Early Miocene apes.2011, Patricia J. Ash, David J. Robinson, The Emergence of Humans. From the entry griphopith
  • First, Chance and his collaborators have clung to the untenable generalization that monkey society is agonic and ape society hedonic.2007, Warren D. TenHouten, “The Sociorelational Approach to the Emotions: Four Elementary Forms of Sociality”, in A General Theory of…. From the entry agonic
  • However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN. From the entry rehabilitant

Meaning of ape

  1. noun An anthropoid of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
  2. noun A Hominoidea primate other than a human.
  3. noun An unintelligent or unsophisticated person, especially one who behaves irrationally or in an uncivilised manner.

Full definition of ape

Questions about ape in a sentence

How do you use ape in a sentence?
Ape is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “We were ape over the new look.”
What is a short sentence with ape?
“Humans share common ancestors with other apes.”
What does ape mean?
Ape means an anthropoid of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

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