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

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