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Example sentences for "chappies"

Lexicographically close words:
chaplets; chapmen; chapparal; chapped; chappie; chappit; chaprassi; chaps; chapters; chaque
  1. But most of the smart chappies are wearin' 'em that way, you know.

  2. At other times, unless they wanted a match or the time or something, chappies did not speak to fellows to whom they had not been introduced.

  3. The chappies who prowled and prowled around.

  4. And Jimmy Monroe, who's on the Stock Exchange, says he's frightfully busy these times buying margins or whatever it is chappies do down in the City.

  5. But I hear the Cunard well spoken of, and then again some chappies swear by the White Star.

  6. Yes, I went twenty-four times The first time I went was with a couple of chappies from.

  7. Rummy, he reflected, how chappies stayed the same all their lives as they were when they were kids.

  8. This, he took it, was what writing-chappies called a coincidence.

  9. This is the sort of street chappies are murdering people in all the time.

  10. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

  11. The whole thing reminded me of one of those melodramas where they drive chappies out of the old homestead into the snow.

  12. Until we started this business of floating old Chiswick as a money-making proposition I had never realized what a perfectly foul time those Stock Exchange chappies must have when the public isn't biting freely.

  13. As I stood in my lonely bedroom at the hotel, trying to tie my white tie myself, it struck me for the first time that there must be whole squads of chappies in the world who had to get along without a man to look after them.

  14. I suppose it seems rummy to you," I said, "but the fact is New York often bucks chappies up and makes them show a flash of speed that you wouldn't have imagined them capable of.

  15. He had the aspect of one who had been soaked with what the newspaper chappies call "some blunt instrument.

  16. Chappies keep them on ice for years and years, and don't sell them till they fetch about a dollar a whirl.

  17. I felt like one of those chappies in the novels who calls off the fight with his wife in the last chapter and decides to forget and forgive.

  18. All a publisher has to do is to write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.

  19. He was what American chappies would call a hard-boiled egg.

  20. I knew lots of chappies down Washington Square way who started the evening at about 2 a.

  21. I doubt if the idea that came to me then would have occurred to a single one of any dozen of the brainiest chappies you care to name.

  22. He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them.

  23. On broader lines he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked "Inquiries.

  24. This is the sikey seats, an' we dinna want ony o' you chappies poachin' amon' his lads.

  25. What beats me is how you chappies find out things.

  26. I like asphalt streets and crowds and dodging taxis and meeting chappies at the club and popping in at the Empire for half an hour and so forth.

  27. My knowledge of chappies in general, after a fairly wide experience, is that some chappies seem to kind of convey an atmosphere of unpleasantness the moment you come into contact with them.

  28. This was dead opposite to my Aunt Agatha's philosophy of life, she having always rather given me to understand that it is the presence in it of chappies like me that makes London more or less of a plague spot; but I let it go.

  29. When each of the dozen has a dozen chickens, you send the old hens back to the chappies you borrowed them from, with thanks for kind loan; and there you are, starting business with a hundred and forty-four free chickens to your name.

  30. I'll bet he'd have been sick if chappies had refused to let him have tick when he was starting his store.

  31. What I mean to say is, he's also one of those sturdy, square, fine-looking chappies of about the middle height.

  32. Well, I mean to say, do chappies bung paper-weights at mosquitoes?

  33. Why, the fellow would be feeling like one of those chappies who used to joust for the smiles of females in the Middle Ages.

  34. If you don't let those chappies find me, I shouldn't be surprised if I bought one.

  35. Chappies would rot him about it to the most fearful extent.

  36. These chappies gassed on like this so as to try to make you feel that the management took a personal interest in you.

  37. Your whole fortune is founded on chappies who throw pies.

  38. You probably scour the world for chappies who throw pies.

  39. The first time I went was with a couple of chappies from .

  40. I don't know, you know this is the sort of street chappies are murdering people in all the time.

  41. So far as you are concerned the matter is simple enough; you are a doctor, and when once these chappies have had an example of your skill in that line I expect they'll find you plenty to do.

  42. The poor old chappies look a bit put out as it is; but I'll soon make it all right with them.

  43. Shall I tell these chappies that they need not worry any further about their Queen, for that you are prepared to cure her, whatever her malady may happen to be?

  44. That's where a number of chappies would slip up, and I'm pretty certain I should have slipped up myself, but for another singularly rummy occurrence.

  45. Other chappies seem to do it, but I can't even start.

  46. I could have sworn that one of the waiter-chappies was that fellow who knocked off your hat in Piccadilly.

  47. I tell you, laddie, that for a moment I thought I had strayed into a Bishop's Beano at Exeter Hall or the Athenaeum or wherever it is those chappies collect in gangs.

  48. I knew what was good for that; so I hints that he round up his chappies and go down into the gym.

  49. I read a story once where two chappies wanted to get rid of a body.

  50. We don't want drinks and a gush of loose talk, and I saw at a glance that was all those chappies were good for.

  51. I've got quite a line of friends among the rich chappies from Fifth Avenue.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chappies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.