How to Use chummy in a Sentence

chummy

adjective

• She was getting chummy with the reporters.
• The two of them were in that closet, all chummy, for an hour.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• Get chummy with the concierge at your hotel (or the chef!) and pick their brain about the best places to eat in the area.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 20 Aug. 2018
• This seemed to make the 7,000-seat room — half the size of most of the other venues on Springsteen’s tour — even more chummy.
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
• That the refs did appear quite chummy with the other team’s coach?
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• It’s about staying present and close but not chummy with the abuser.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
• In the flash-forward, Madison and Kevin are very chummy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2021
• Through the years her parents, Rick and Barb Thomas, became chummy with the owners.
  — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, Lake County News-Sun, 23 May 2018
• Claire’s Walsh is a chummy working man who’d be just as at home at a potluck as at a union meeting.
  — Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Techler, Vulture, 30 June 2021
• Meanwhile, the two appeared to be pretty chummy in the days that followed.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• For starters, both Kelce and Swift are chummy with actor Miles Teller.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
• The palace is chummy enough with the British press that there’s a system — the Royal Rota — for covering them.
  — Alex Cranz, The Verge, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the months since, Amazon’s relationship with the White House has been less than chummy.
  — Dana Mattioli, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• Obviously, fans lost it at the sight of the chummy reunion.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 15 May 2017
• The pair got chummy as Barrymore knelt before Liu on set.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• Ms. May is polite but not chummy, works late and does not hang around Parliament’s bars.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 13 July 2016
• Kevin and Madison are so chummy on Kate's wedding day, despite having called off the wedding in the present day.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
• But others in the rank-and-file thought Curry was too chummy with the establishment and would not push hard enough to get what the workers want.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023
• But Nickel wasn’t exactly chummy, rarely speaking when the two of them made their sweeps.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• The president seems to want to be chummy with Putin instead of challenging him.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2018
• Again, there's no sign of them being extra chummy during the goodbye hugs.
  — refinery29.com, 22 May 2018
• Both Bonet and Momoa remain chummy with her ex-husband, Lenny Kravitz.
  — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2022
• Chapek was known as not being the most creative-friendly exec in town, while Iger is known as being much more chummy.
  — Vulture, 12 July 2023
• Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber are the best kind of hosts—chummy, clever, and in on the joke—and this is the epitome of easy, fun listening.
  — Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
• Don’t expect things to become chummy-chummy between the two sides.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• And the film hits all the right notes for a great ski film: sweeping unfamiliar landscapes, badass descents, and the chummy laughing that makes these things fun.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
• Brant/Bront/Brent seems to have become quite chummy with Nelson in the intervening years.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 23 July 2018
• But for most of its history, the nation's highest court has looked like a chummy private men's club from a not-so-distant time.
  — Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• The two were spotted together looking chummy inside the Met Gala last night.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 8 May 2018
• In recent court appearances, the two men have seemed almost chummy, whispering frequently to one another at the defense table.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024