Sentence examples for Dear chap from inspiring English sources
My dear chap, I'm so glad.
"My dear chap," retorted Elliott disapprovingly.
"My dear chap, not another word, I promise".
"Mr Tinker," he snipped, "do you realise you single-handedly closed my Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?" Jack, unfazed, "My dear chap!
On hearing that he came from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the interviewing officer said, "My dear chap, you're just the type.
In THE BRUTAL TELLING (Minotaur, $24.99), the dear chap who owns Olivier's Bistro is revealed to have a cutthroat business streak that may have something to do with the old hermit who's found dead one morning on the bistro floor.
MAJOR (solemnly): Long life to you — hic — my dear young chap.
(He remains in deep thought for a moment, staring perplexedly around the room — then mutters in a tone of deep self-disgust:) Missed fire, by God! MAJOR (importantly): A damned narrow squeak of it, my dear young chap.
Perhaps, even now, the "blackamoor lamp" is sitting just out of shot in that same drawing room, in pride of place – except, of course, on the enormously rare occasions when a visitor's ethnicity requires the dear little chap to hide behind some foliage.
