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

She described her brother as a "gregarious chap" with a "very warm personality" and "infectious laugh".

From BBC • Aug. 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

As I say, he’s a cussed proud chap now, and so he didn’t even so much as say “Yes, sir.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin