Sentence examples for chaps about from inspiring English sources

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

The sliced tissues were directly homogenized in DIGE lysis buffer (30 mM Tris, 2 M Thio urea, 7 M Urea, 4% CHAPS; about 0.5 mg/200 mg tissues).

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

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.

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".

"The reaction to Bond comes from lovely young chaps of about 11 and they have no idea what else I've done, and nor should they be bothered," said Dench.

Her 16th birthday is the occasion for an Edwardian tennis match – lots of chaps swanning about in white flannels and boaters – through which she skitters barefoot, heedful only of her secret romance.

Some of the menswear (like a Union Jack blazer) seems like it will have difficulty translating to the shabby scruff of the Lower East Side, although there are a few dapper chaps lurking about.