How to Use chimpanzee in a Sentence

chimpanzee

noun
Definition of chimpanzeenext
  • The chimpanzee is grieving the death of a loved one in her own way.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • For the past decade, the focus has been on chimpanzees.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The gift of the chimpanzee is the vista we are offered of ourselves.
    — David Barash, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The question that Woodruff and Premack asked was whether a chimpanzee could do the same.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The public was asked to choose the name of the newest chimpanzee born at the Maryland Zoo.
    — Alexa Dikos, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • That’s because the fossil showed a skull more akin to a chimpanzee.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 July 2022
  • If so, then why does a bloody chimpanzee named Gordy still haunt my dreams?
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Worse than the chimpanzee who bit his owner’s face off.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Like Akira, the best dancer in the chimpanzee study, his brain seems wired for music.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Montessa, a 46-year-old chimpanzee, has been through a lot.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • First, one of the characters, a chimpanzee named Dave, is deaf.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Or a crow, a dog, a chimpanzee, an octopus, or any of the other smart ones.
    — Adam Morganstern, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • To me, this suggests that chimpanzees are aware of how their signals come across.
    — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
  • The first episode goes underground with meerkats, across plains with cheetahs and above the trees with a chimpanzee in Cameroon.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Presley had a host of pets, but none were so dear to him as his chimpanzee, Scatter.
    — Noor Brara, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Dozens of chimpanzees emerged from the brush, hairy arms extended.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The fight left a second chimpanzee, named Qafzeh, with injuries.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • The United States launched a chimpanzee named Ham into space.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • But not just any chimpanzee; inside the crate is an adorable baby Pogo.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The zoo is planning to add polar bears and chimpanzees in those habitats.
    — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2020
  • There just isn’t any need for a movie about a baseball-playing chimpanzee.
    — Matt Caputo, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • My portion was in an extra bag that hung from my pack like a chimpanzee.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2022
  • The act was first noticed in in 2019 in an adult female chimpanzee named Suzee who placed the insect on her son.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Raven was the second chimpanzee to give birth at the zoo outside of Baltimore in 2019.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Cheeky chimps If the weather can be unpredictable, so can the chimpanzees.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Humans share 99 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees and 97 percent with the great apes.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • The bonobo is a primate closely related to chimpanzees.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Parrots can imitate us in ways that chimpanzees can’t, alright?
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024

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