Sentence examples for splendid chaps from inspiring English sources

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, seized on the incident as proof that western powers are bent on overthrowing splendid chaps such as himself.

"You can't underestimate the importance of repetition," says John Richards, co-creator of ABC1's gay science fiction fan club sitcom Outland, and co-host of popular Doctor Who podcast Splendid Chaps.

The academic cites his paper on Rockall, published in the Journal of Historical Geography, to argue: In the original paper, I was not trying to say that Rockall's early explorers were a cut above the rest (splendid chaps – all of them).

McKenzie has been a devoted Who fan since childhood, recently had a story published in a fan anthology and last year alone ran no fewer than 21 local and interstate sessions of a live-panel/podcast called Splendid Chaps, which discussed and debated all things Who.

"I never met Matthew but I'm sure he was a splendid chap.

Button is a splendid chap, and Ross Brawn is a masterful engineer and organizer.

There have been suggestions that some of your exchanges make you look like Flashman... Cameron: Splendid chap, Flashman.

Being such a splendid chap, he thought he deserved to live forever, so ordered his most learned courtiers to travel north, south, east and west and bring back herbs to make him immortal.

Lord Grantham: "Are we living under a curse, doomed to lose our lady's maids at regular intervals?" Tony Gillingham to Lady Mary, making a strong case for himself: TG: "Look, I never met Matthew, but I'm sure he's a splendid chap".

You know Freshfields – splendid legal chaps, members of the lawyers' Magic Circle.

A list of words I've found used in connection to the Chap Olympiad on social media: spiffing, old chap, splendid, chumrades, jolly good, vintage dog, eccentric, tally ho, finery, foreigners, skulduggery, Blitz party, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer.