APE in a Sentence

Learn APE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

16 example sentences for APE, such as:

1. We watched two apes grooming each other.
2. The ugly apes sat upon the trees, and grinned.
3. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
4. An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.
5. Drunkards had reeled by, cursing and chattering to themselves like monstrous apes.

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 Meanings and Examples of APE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ape
 v.  imitate; mimic, as an ape imitates human actions
Classic Sentence:
1  If that black ape got her again, she would die before he even got his hands upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  Raoul was the small son of Maybelle and Rene Picard--a detestable little brat, Scarlett thought, more like an ape than a child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  Her face was puckered in the sad bewilderment of an old ape but there was determination in her jaw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
4  So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  In an instant, without the least sound to warn us of his coming, the garden gate swung open, and a lithe, dark figure, as swift and active as an ape, rushed up the garden path.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
6  I suppose you mean the barefooted children that are taught by a bloody ape like you.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
8  Drunkards had reeled by, cursing and chattering to themselves like monstrous apes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
9  The ugly apes sat upon the trees, and grinned.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE BELL
10  It irritated her so much that during one formal call she aped Gerald's brogue to her aunt's distress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  She clutched him with such strength; she could wrestle an ape to the ground.
2  Amanda's mother learns that her daughter's strange pal is rumored to be half ape, "You can't have a monkey as your best friend.”
3  You would be suspended for a week, if you ape the principal in front of the whole school like Tom.
4  The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
5  An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.
6  We watched two apes grooming each other.