Sentence examples for an old chap from inspiring English sources

Halász, P. K-complex, a reactive EEG graphoelement of NREM sleep: an old chap in a new garment.

"He was an old chap who had a lot of students in the valley," Mrs. Strong said.

But now we have a lively picture - an image of someone you could bump into on the street, rather than just an old chap in a wig.

"I know this one". He has the local background and, as he probes and prods, the cafe proprietor admits sheepishly that the pies arrive with a scrappy piece of paper, no official invoice, dubiously labelled "organic" with no list of contents, paid for in cash to an old chap called Gramps off the back of a lorry.

I expected an old chap in beads and kaftan, but he turned up in slacks and a cardigan, and instead of LSD enthused about a new system of global communication, built on the free supply of "information in, information out", which was going to change the world.

Well, Neil, it might be for an old chap like you, but for young people, Miss Mayo thinks it's very natural.

For instance, an older chap in the lift said to me, "Hello!

Actually the most revealing – and entertaining – stuff about her early romantic escapades comes from an early boyfriend, a seedy old chap called Tony.

They are psychopathic types, with a "flabby old chap" for a leader who prances around stadiums seeking adulation.

Until now, Mr Yosano has best been known as a genial old chap with a twinkling sense of humour or even of wry detachment.

The "Dear Leader" variously emerges as "a flabby old chap", "quite a good drinker" and "increasingly indecisive since his stroke and other health problems".