How to Use ape in a Sentence

ape

1 of 2 noun

• Her boyfriend's some big ape she met at a party.
• The war may be over, but the planet of the apes lives on.
  — EW.com, 2 Nov. 2023
• In the clip, the ape taps on the glass of its enclosure and points at the human baby.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2023
• But the apes' strict diet may have led to the species' demise, researchers found.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest ape on the planet, also shows up.
  — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
• So, if someone’s ape NFT gets stolen via a phishing scam, the blockchain treats the thief as the new owner.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 12 Mar. 2022
• The Gardners, who were childless, raised the young ape on their ranch in her early years.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• One day, a shrewdness of apes encountered a stench of skunks.
  — J. C. Duffy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• It has been observed in at least 51 species from small lemurs up to bigger apes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
• One official said the ape may have been asking for food.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• Now, the ape's third owner is auctioning the item for $1.4 million.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2022
• While the skull looks more ape-like, the femur appears markedly human.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2021
• Luther walks through the door, somehow alive again, and his body no longer has its ape-like muscle tone and statue.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
• Karen, a 28-year-old orangutan, became the first ape in the world to get a coronavirus vaccine on Jan. 26 at the San Diego Zoo.
  — Fox News, 19 Mar. 2021
• The part of the dog, Benjamin Franklin, was taken by a timid ape called McNamara.
  — Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Infants ages 1 to 2 have been found to use more than 50 gestures from the ape repertoire, researchers said.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• The city is not named after the ape-like creature said to inhabit the forests of North America.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2022
• Owners of a cartoon ape were issued a QR code that allowed entry to the event.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Unsurprisingly, Alegre made the case for why the apes are here to stay.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 13 July 2023
• So staying switched on longer in childhood could allow our brains to grow more than ape brains.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Each ape is a misprized thing, bought and sold constantly.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• The cave men later find the ape, the cave girl and six little creatures, and puzzle over the existence of the first cave children.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• On the first day of his transformation, the narrator and the ape sit on the lawn together, ripping up the grass.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Some are more extreme, of course: One is skinned and another looks like an ape with fur and these very long, thin arms.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 20 May 2022
• At the time, Judd was visiting the African country for research on the endangered ape species, the Bonobos.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• But why would anyone pay that much money for an image of a cartoon ape?
  — Samara Lynn, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2022
• As the animals sipped their juice, the computer displayed pairs of ape faces for three seconds at a time.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• In these tales, the animals are sometimes more human-like and, other times, more ape-like.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 5 Aug. 2021
• Oh, and also there’s this huge ape, like really huge, that lived on a remote place called Skull Island.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• Only a few other animals, like parrots and apes, have demonstrated a knack for this kind of eavesdropping.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026

ape

2 of 2 verb

• She apes the speech and manners of the rich.
• Cooper said, aping the New Orleans drawl of Wade’s dad, Bum.
  — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2017
• Not every crook has a skilled mimic on call to ape the brushstrokes of Titian or Twombly.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• Amazon aped the Remarkable 2 and gave the glass a rougher surface.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
• By aping Mr Trump, Mr Moore is meanwhile trying to cast his net wider.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Spikes of creamy white astilbe mimicked Mona Lisa’s skin tone, and the long seed heads of the andromeda aped her fingers and added a tawny layer.
  — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• My point is not to persuade states to ape Israel’s strategic posture.
  — Cian O'Driscoll, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2019
• There simply isn’t enough time to see what the other player does and make a conscious decision to ape it.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2011
• But though there have been many iterations of Kong, none can ape the impact of the original.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Dara,’ added a cascade of plums and pinks, its droop aping Lunia’s forlornness.
  — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• But it has long been suggested that many of Gagosian’s collectors simply ape his taste.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• The desire to ape the far larger industry in the U.S. is another incentive.
  — Colin McClelland, Bloomberg.com, 9 July 2017
• 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.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 30 Mar. 2018
• There are the styling cues such as the hoops on the hood and covers over the tire inflation valves that ape the look of the real military Hummer but are absolutely pointless on the H2.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2017
• So while other candidates may ape his style or tone, Trump remains sui generis.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2023
• Season 2 tried to ape the confusing timeline trickery of the first and mostly failed miserably.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The crowd attempted to ape his falsetto on the former but failed hilariously.
  — Eve Barlow, Billboard, 23 July 2017
• 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.
  — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• What’s more, other countries are already aping these techniques in their own struggles.
  — Mikael Krogerus, New Republic, 2 Nov. 2017
• The difference, of course, is that Stranger Things, which returns for a second season next month, is consciously (and brilliantly) aping all those old ’80s tropes.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2017
• More mainstream politicians on the center-right are aping Le Pen’s brand of identity politics.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• Theo James will ape the example of many a thespian predecessor by starring in a movie adaptation of a Stephen King tale.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 May 2023
• The Gringa goes out of its way to ape the sort of archival work that fiction writers who deal carefully with history engage in—only to dismiss it all as meaningless.
  — Andrew Altschul, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• Lemley thinks the courts may draw a line, though, at A.I. models explicitly designed to ape a particular artist.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• Rose and Morris wound up using six different angles, with one that aped the back cover photo from the album as a mirror image.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
• Lumberjacks and the hipster bartenders who ape their style have long favored Pendleton’s flannel overshirts.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• Others, like Shetler, come to ape the lives of local sadhus—followers of the formidable, three-eyed god, Shiva—squatting in stone caves and tree hollows.
  — Ariel Sophia Bardi, Slate Magazine, 2 Jan. 2017
• Beneath the red open sign of the nameless bar that watered down its whiskey, darkness and shimmery yellow beads of neon light half-heartedly aped what a corner of the Las Vegas Strip might have been thirty years ago.
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Democratic politicians still believe Mr Sanders’s 2016 insurgency showed the party had moved in a big way to the left—hence the alacrity with which many of his rivals have aped his free-college-style proposals.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025