How to use chap in a sentence

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• All in all, Jack's a very practical chap.From the entry practical
• That was a bally foolish thing to do, old chap!From the entry bally
• He's a handyish chap with a screwdriver.From the entry handyish
• They say that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce the scale of human warfare, poor old chap.From the entry Gatling gun
• We need to know more about this new chap. Why don't you go to his home town and ferret around a bit? See what you can come up with.From the entry ferret around
• A bow tie apparently proclaims a man to be witty, brilliant, perhaps a chap of Thurberesque genius.2012, Gregg Stebben, The Man's Playbook. From the entry Thurberesque
• The second chap, Adrian Ameche, was a head-butter; he loved to butt his head against walls.2006, Nana S. Achampong, i, immigrant, page 330. From the entry head-butter
• H9 Companies that are “boh chap” about safety face stiffer penalties.2005 March 11, Sue-Ann Chia, The Straits Times. From the entry bo chup
• No need to explain, old chap; the reason is readily apparent.2003 December 9, Adam Kennedy, “Rotting flesh”, in alt.politics.british (Usenet), retrieved 12 Jun 2022. From the entry arsehood
• My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug.1998, John Gunn, Dear Descendants: Recollections for a Gunn Family History 1945-1957, page 19. From the entry jug
• This effect, called thigmomorphogenesis (see chap. 3), involves the motion-induced inhibition of growth.1992, Karl J. Niklas, Plant Biomechanics: An Engineering Approach to Plant Form and Function, University of Chicago Press, page 322. From the entry thigmomorphogenesis
• Shrewd chap, you thought; resourceful; not above a bit of larceny.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry larceny
• He’s the chap who cooked up whatever hellbrew has got loose.1977, Desmond Bagley, chapter 37, in The Enemy, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1978, page 243. From the entry hellbrew
• Why, I was talking to a chap here in Beemis who was just back from there.1925, The Saturday Evening Post, G. Graham, page 6. From the entry overcold
• Ah'd like to wahrn (warn) thi agaan 'evvin owt to dew wi' that chap.1924, J H Wilkinson, Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore, page 60. From the entry again
• Serve him right if some young chap took the wind out of his sails.1922, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 31, in The Head of the House of Coombe. From the entry take the wind out of someone's sails
• Tell that to the oxy chap downstairs and touch him for a guinea.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 7. From the entry oxy
• "My word, old chap, that is top-hole tennis," said the Englishman, warmly congratulating him.1921, Ralph Connor, chapter 1, in To Him That Hath. From the entry top-hole
• A husky-voiced chap with a red brush on his chin shuffled up to the demonstrater.1918 March 9, “Ever Meet a "Shiller"? He's a Cousin to the Fellow Who Could Spot the Pea in the Old Shell Game”, in The Hudson Triangle…. From the entry shiller
• "Yes, that I be, and I 'ave a little boy, he be a sprack little chap."1916, J. H. Morgan, Leaves from a Field Note-Book. From the entry sprack
• Now you've got to be a good chap and help me.1915, John Buchan, chapter 4, in The Thirty-Nine Steps. From the entry gift of the gab
• I didn' laugh at the moment, not bein' a triggerish chap at a joke.1915, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Nicky-Nan, Reservist, page 208. From the entry triggerish
• I knew that chap; but he never was more nor tenpence to the shilling.1909, Edward R. Hartley, Train Talks, page 4. From the entry tenpence to the shilling
• Perhaps this big chap in the swagger flannels was one of the gang.1905 September, Arthur [Cheney] Train, “The Extraordinary Adventure of the Baron de Ville”, in McAllister and His Double, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry high roller
• It's awfully stuffy for a chap not to be allowed out in the evenings.1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet. From the entry homer
• You do put a chap on the stand, don’t you!2025 June 19, Scott Heller, quoting Stephen Fry, “Stephen Fry Knows He’s Become a Middle-Aged Cliché”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry on the stand
• Country priest, reflective chap, getting stuck into Araucaria’s “Perimetricals”2021, Enigmatist, “Feb 2021 extra”, in 3D Calendar Puzzles. From the entry perimetrical
• There's a chap who used to come here used to work at our place we used to call him reasty Roy.2021, Sebastian Groes, R. M. Francis, Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country, page 93. From the entry reasty
• I was vile to this poor chap who, like a cheerful Papageno, was much better-natured than I was.2017, Charles Duff, “What About the Linen?”, in Charley’s Woods: Sex, Sorrow and a Spiritual Quest in Snowdonia, London: Zuleika, →ISBN…. From the entry good-natured
• “Sorry old chap—keep your hair on—but surely you knew just about everyone was siphoning off the odd bit, here and there?”2014, Melvin Rea, The Island They Towed Away, AuthorHouse, page 233. From the entry keep one's hair on
• The chap I′m most pally with is Fright who is nearly sixty now but still climbs like a youngster.2011, David Rowley, Erections in the Far East, page 19. From the entry pally
• 'I saw you in Norfolk doing twenty-odd takes with that fisherman chap and it looked perfect in the rushes.'2009, Lissa Evans, Their Finest Hour and a Half, London […]: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 321. From the entry take
• He was all spiffed up, this chap, decked out in a spotless white shirt and a bow tie.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 22. From the entry spiff up
• You see, old chap, this is it: the pipe smokers' relay, the Chap Olympics, sport's ultimate trial of Chappism.2007 July 15, Adam Lusher, “The rise and rise of the Chap Olympics”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Chappism
• See “Tombstone” in chap — the parking problems and congestee.2003, Karl Samson et al., Frommer’s « American Southwest, page 1. From the entry congestee
• When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society.2001 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Sympathy for a devil”, in The Guardian. From the entry open sesame

Meaning of chap

1. noun A man, a fellow.
2. noun A customer, a buyer.
3. noun A child.

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Questions about chap in a sentence

How do you use chap in a sentence?

Chap is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Who’s that chap over there?”

What is a short sentence with chap?

“Poor, poor chap.’”

What does chap mean?

Chap means a man, a fellow.