CHAP in a Sentence

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80 example sentences for CHAP, such as:

1. He's a reasonable sort of chap.
2. He's a clever chap, too, with the pen.
3. Just another surveillance job, old chap.
4. Here, Stephen, show me your plate, old chap.
5. Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chap
 n.  crack, as in earth surface; splitting of skin, caused by cold or exposure; one of the jaws or cheeks; man or boy
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  Here, Stephen, show me your plate, old chap.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  No, I treat you as your grandfather treated me when I was a young chap.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  No, Stephen, old chap, I'm sorry to say that they are only as I roved out one fine May morning in the merry month of sweet July.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  Well, Tommy," he said, "I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
5  Thanks awfully, old chap," said Ignatius Gallaher, "I'm sorry we didn't meet earlier.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
6  You see I'm over here with another fellow, clever young chap he is too, and we arranged to go to a little card-party.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
7  He's a clever chap, too, with the pen.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
8  Here's this chap come to the throne after his old mother keeping him out of it till the man was grey.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
9  "That was a decent young chap, that medical fellow," he said.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
10  "Well, poor fellow, he's a decent sort of chap, after all," continued Gabriel in a false voice.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
11  Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
12  I had a white companion too, not a bad chap, but rather too fleshy and with the exasperating habit of fainting on the hot hillsides, miles away from the least bit of shade and water.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
14  A few months of training had done for that really fine chap.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
15  When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  Just another surveillance job, old chap.
2  He's a reasonable sort of chap.
3  Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap.
4  And the boy is dying - that's the worst of it - oh! poor little chap, that is the worst of it!
5  I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him.