How to Use chimpanzee in a Sentence

chimpanzee

noun
  • When a chimpanzee walks on two legs, the wide set of its hips keeps its legs held apart.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • If so, then why does a bloody chimpanzee named Gordy still haunt my dreams?
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The gift of the chimpanzee is the vista we are offered of ourselves.
    — David Barash, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • My portion was in an extra bag that hung from my pack like a chimpanzee.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2022
  • That’s because the fossil showed a skull more akin to a chimpanzee.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 July 2022
  • There just isn’t any need for a movie about a baseball-playing chimpanzee.
    — Matt Caputo, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • To me, this suggests that chimpanzees are aware of how their signals come across.
    — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
  • Dozens of chimpanzees emerged from the brush, hairy arms extended.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Its cranium was a bit bigger than that of a chimpanzee, but not by much.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2015
  • But Lucy stood on two feet and had a small brain, not much larger than that of a chimpanzee.
    — Denise Su, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2024
  • The zoo is planning to add polar bears and chimpanzees in those habitats.
    — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Humans are not alone in being much more peaceful on the whole than chimpanzees.
    — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • And its brain is about the size of a chimpanzee’s, but it’s shaped and organized a lot like ours.
    — ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
  • Adult male chimpanzees have been known to adopt a little one and lovingly care for it.
    — Time, 17 June 2023
  • As of 2024, 21 chimpanzees live at the zoo.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But not just any chimpanzee; inside the crate is an adorable baby Pogo.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Gorillas have them, but chimpanzees do not.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Or a crow, a dog, a chimpanzee, an octopus, or any of the other smart ones.
    — Adam Morganstern, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Western chimpanzees are one of four subspecies of chimps spread across Africa.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2017
  • First, one of the characters, a chimpanzee named Dave, is deaf.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Presley had a host of pets, but none were so dear to him as his chimpanzee, Scatter.
    — Noor Brara, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Like Akira, the best dancer in the chimpanzee study, his brain seems wired for music.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The fight left a second chimpanzee, named Qafzeh, with injuries.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • The question that Woodruff and Premack asked was whether a chimpanzee could do the same.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Read Next World Rare video of chimpanzee using tool caught on trail cam.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Goodall was best known for her pioneering studies of chimpanzees in the wild.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But humans dwarf the competence of a dolphin or a chimpanzee.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In the chimpanzee section, Charly was dead in his sleeping area.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
  • Cheeky chimps If the weather can be unpredictable, so can the chimpanzees.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023

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