chap

Example Sentences

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As an honest broker from the moderate left, notwithstanding his Trump fixation, Mr. Traub may be the chap to get the message across.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Remembering her stepson as "an amazing chap", Ms Dyche, who lives near Leominster, said: "He only had to walk into the house and it put a smile on my face."

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

Our unlikely hero is the Dude from “The Big Lebowski” as a manic pixie dream boy, an effervescently charming and inexplicably quirky chap.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

“If something in you yourself says you aren’t a painter’—it's then that you should paint, old chap, and that voice will be silenced too, but precisely because of that.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman