How to Use chimp in a Sentence
chimp
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The chimps are the best part of the zoo!
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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At first, the chimps ran away from her.
—Tricia Escobedo, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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But Goodall didn’t just care about the chimps.
—Martha Shade, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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Or was this hominid more like a chimp than like us?
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
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Goodall kept the plush chimp close throughout her adult life.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
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The chimp soon stacked up the boxes, climbed them and grabbed the treat.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 7 June 2026
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The Central chimps chased them.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
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These chimps live in the hottest, most arid place that chimps are known to exist.
—Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
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And then the work was done with Washoe and four other chimps.
—Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
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This chimp really needs a love song.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
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The chimp could be clueless and content; the dog could be wild with grief.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Some species can go over a thousand, right, whereas the chimp can’t.
—Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
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The chimp craned its neck forward and its eyes seemed to widen, as if to get a better look.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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The couple who maintain the zoo of thirteen dogs and two old chimps.
—Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
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Why was the sick chimp chewing on the bitter pith of this poisonous plant?
—Yao-Hua Law, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2014
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Apes and chimps have maintained this gene and molecule over time.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 July 2019
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In their place is a cyborg space chimp with laser-shooting eyeballs.
—Matt Sebra, GQ, 19 Mar. 2018
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Parasites, such as ticks and fleas, were also scarce in chimp beds.
—Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 15 May 2018
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Human anatomy devotes more space in the skull to the brain than a chimp’s does.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
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Jorge and his wife, Tania, gave the chimp around-the-clock care for the first few months of his life.
—CBS News, 3 July 2018
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The two youngest chimps the researchers observed showed some signs of chunking.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Dreamt that a baby chimp attacked some people then ran to me and hugged me all scared.
—Vulture, 1 Aug. 2022
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This tiny, small-brained creature stood just a bit more than three feet tall and had a brain as big as a chimp.
—Pasquale Raia, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019
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When all the chimps were in, Leo tried again, and this time Hercules came.
—David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
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The chimps were caged in a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary.
—Deepti Hajela, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
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Jubilee was named for the zoo’s baby chimp and had a music box in its tummy.
—WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
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It wasn't immediately known how the chimp came to live with her.
—CBS News, 22 June 2021
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Villagers told me how children had gone into the forest with dogs that had killed a chimp.
—John Vidal, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2020
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The fate of the remaining former research chimps is less clear.
—Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 8 Nov. 2024
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The Gombe chimps taught her much about life, love and resourcefulness.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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