Sentence examples for chap about from inspiring English sources

For a small-ish chap – about the height of my mum, for dubious reference – he seems whippy and compact, if he can seem that at the same time.

It was my last stint standing in on the Radio 2 breakfast show, and the first half-hour flew by with listeners' texts, travel and sport updates, plus I chatted to a nice chap about his alpacas and the perils of feeding them before sunrise.

As we walk towards the centre court, I get talking to a chap about what a splendid sporting summer it's been so far: our footballers going to Germany and winning 6-3 (although I'd sooner they'd lost than give the Nazi salute, as they did); young Denis Compton getting a century against the Australians at Trent Bridge; and our golfers beating the United States at the Walker Cup match.

"I'm still pretty chapped about the whole situation.

Most were not frail pensioners but "chaps about your age, waiting to be called up".

A measured response from this chap (enough about chaps for one blog).

"The idea that he's surprised that Yorkshire – a place that contains areas as disparate as Hull, Richmond, Bradford and York – might have more than one idea of how it might devolve power is just another indicator of how little this chap knows about the nation he leads".

Here's what one fairly knowledgeable chap said about the Bergdahl affair yesterday.

Mind you, this hale and hearty chap is about to return to the stage in ten minutes and writhe around groaning in supposedly terminal straits, and we supposedly will re-attach ourselves to his plight and the entire premise of the opera that flows from his unstoppable bleeding.

Tibet, then ruled by the Dalai Lama, was leery about European chaps tromping about its mountains, making notes and sketching maps.

IT USED to be said that "history's about chaps, geography's about maps".