How to Use chimp in a Sentence

chimp

noun
  • There are so many stories of chimps hurting their owners or their owners’ friends.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Tonka running with a fellow chimp named Jacob at the sanctuary.
    Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Jorge and his wife, Tania, gave the chimp around-the-clock care for the first few months of his life.
    CBS News, 3 July 2018
  • And then the work was done with Washoe and four other chimps.
    Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
  • Not just use tools — ravens use tools, and chimps use tools.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • When all the chimps were in, Leo tried again, and this time Hercules came.
    David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
  • These chimps live in the hottest, most arid place that chimps are known to exist.
    Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • Goodall kept the plush chimp close throughout her adult life.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Human anatomy devotes more space in the skull to the brain than a chimp’s does.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The couple who maintain the zoo of thirteen dogs and two old chimps.
    Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
  • At least with a chimp, there would be somebody to eat the bugs out of Rudy Giuliani's hair.
    Fox News, 22 July 2018
  • Why was the sick chimp chewing on the bitter pith of this poisonous plant?
    Yao-Hua Law, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2014
  • Keepers say the baby is bonding well with Alice and the rest of the zoo’s 21 chimps.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2019
  • This tiny, small-brained creature stood just a bit more than three feet tall and had a brain as big as a chimp.
    Pasquale Raia, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The chimps were caged in a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary.
    Deepti Hajela, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • His life’s work is convincing people to save the wild chimp.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Dreamt that a baby chimp attacked some people then ran to me and hugged me all scared.
    Vulture, 1 Aug. 2022
  • After the birth of the new chimp, the baby and her mother, Rozi, did well initially.
    Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024
  • And, for the most part, the DNA does line up at genes; there are very few genes that are either human- or chimp-specific.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The chimp then returns home to his wife, satisfied with the brief dalliance in the single life.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2021
  • The chimp from Nope vs. Cocaine Bear Gordy is strong, fast, and mad at hell at his exploitation.
    Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Then the mother chimp took hold of Sia’s nearby foot and placed the insect onto an open wound.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Jubilee was named for the zoo’s baby chimp and had a music box in its tummy.
    WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • And there was Shauri-ya Mangu, a baby chimp who roamed freely in her house.
    Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Unlike us, the ancient hominins had brains the size of chimps and hung out in trees to escape predators.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • Apes and chimps have maintained this gene and molecule over time.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 July 2019
  • The dog or chimp had to turn around, retrieve the correct object, and bring it back to the experimenter to get a treat.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2012
  • Would two chimps with the hots for each other go off with the rifle, the fishing gear, and the food, leaving the odd chimp out to stay behind and die? .
    Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • One of the most popular characters on the e-greetings site was a chimp.
    Tom Taulli, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
  • That one chimp soon became seven - and the sanctuary was born in 1995.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024

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