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Examples of ape in a Sentence
Her boyfriend's some big ape she met at a party.
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That’s where George lives and hangs out with Davis Okoye (Johnson), a loving primatologist who carries on conversations with the ape (performed in motion capture by Jason Liles) in sign language all day.
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Among other things, the habitat houses apes orphaned by poachers.
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Johnson is trying to save the world from a giant ape, a giant flying wolf and a giant alligator, after all.
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There's also debate about why the omnivorous apes hunt at all, considering meat isn't a diet staple.
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O'Higgins is also interested in studying the origins of sociality by studying muscular anatomy and function in apes and humans.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows framed an industrial wasteland spotted by neon Prada signs — a cartoon ape, hanging by one arm; a bunch of bananas; a stegosaurus — and the floor had been polished to a dark mirror, creating a vertiginous disorientation.
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The censorship is a safety feature to prevent repeats of a 2015 incident in which the service mistook photos of black people for apes.
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Old World monkeys, apes and hominins — the branch of the ape family tree that includes humans — inherited that ancestor’s ability to see red, particularly against a green background.
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Origin and Etymology of ape
Definition of ape
aper
nounExamples of ape in a Sentence
She apes the speech and manners of the rich.
was caught aping the substitute teacher's thick accent
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Yet, in a Republican primary that’s seemed to be a contest as to who can be the Trumpiest, Braun has joined his opponents in aping some of Trump’s staunchest viewpoints.
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The question now is just how many copycat shows will spring up at other networks, in an attempt to ape the Roseanne revival’s success.
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On Sunday, John Oliver announced that staff writer _Jill Twiss and illustrator EG Keller had penned a picture book that purposefully apes the Pence family’s own children’s book about their bunny, Marlon Bundo.
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Then in September of last year, Fortnite added a second mode that shamelessly aped Battlegrounds, called it Fortnite: Battle Royale.
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More mainstream politicians on the center-right are aping Le Pen’s brand of identity politics.
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Rose and Morris wound up using six different angles, with one that aped the back cover photo from the album as a mirror image.
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Chevy already teased the truck in Texas, showing a sleeker rig with tiny LED slashes for headlights and creased body panels that ape a sports sedan more than the boxy aesthetic typical to the class.
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Why ape the New York convention of piecing bits of street names and directionals into case-sensitive monstrosities?
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First Known Use of ape
1632
Synonym Discussion of ape
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- copied the painting and sold the fake as an original
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- imitate a poet's style
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- pupils mimicking their teacher
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- American fashion designers aped their European colleagues
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- mocking a vain man's pompous manner
Definition of ape
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Old World monkeys, apes and hominins — the branch of the ape family tree that includes humans — inherited that ancestor’s ability to see red, particularly against a green background.
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Just ten years ago, Power says, the scientific community knew virtually nothing about ape milk, let alone the milk of dozens of other exotic mammals whose samples now dominate the repository freezer.
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But Hanuman is also the name of a monkey (not ape) deity featured in Hindu society, and star of an epic poem that has some oblique overlap with one of the storylines in the film.
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With a plot that has plenty of fighting but not overburdened by it, characters—ape and human alike— shine through creating another compelling entry into the ever-growing Apes franchise.
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Oldman plays a human leader who is suspicious of the burgeoning ape society in the middle chapter of this prequel series.
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So in that case, that is actually much more leaning on the sounds of real ape recordings.
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Or at least some of us have: One faction of survivors is working toward a cure for the virus, opening the way to ape-human accord.
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For one, David Begun, anthropologist at the University of Toronto in Canada argues that human and ape ancestors evolved in Europe before moving into Africa.
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First Known Use of ape
1955
APE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of ape for English Language Learners
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: a type of animal (such as a chimpanzee or gorilla) that is closely related to monkeys and humans and that is covered in hair and has no tail or a very short tail
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: a large and stupid or rude person
ape
Definition of ape for English Language Learners
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: to copy or imitate (something or someone)
APE Defined for Kids
Definition of ape for Students
apelike
\ˈāp-ˌlīk\ adjectiveDefinition of ape for Students
- He apes the styles of his favorite actor.
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