How to Use ape in a Sentence

ape

1 of 3 noun
Definition of apenext
Synonyms for apenext
  • 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
  • This suggests the ancestors of apes and humans were feasting on soft, sweet fruits, rather than on hard nuts and seeds.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • One influencer has said he was approached about an ape.
    — Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
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ape

2 of 3 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
  • 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.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2018
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ape

3 of 3 adjective
  • The ape man and Boy meet a chorus girl on her way to warn a sheik about Nazis.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • There are even a few ape traitors helping out the Colonel’s race war.
    — Chris Nashawaty, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2017
  • In the fourth toe, the metatarsal head was domed just like a modern human’s, but other aspects of the shape of the bone looked more ape-like.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • And the shape of the big toe stayed decidedly more ape-like until much later in our lineage, too.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • In these tales, the animals are sometimes more human-like and, other times, more ape-like.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2018
  • For the next few million years, the brains of early hominins did not grow much larger than those of our ape ancestors and cousins.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2015
  • So in that case, that is actually much more leaning on the sounds of real ape recordings.
    — Cristy Lytal, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • 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.
    — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • After a brutal human raid on the cave where Caesar is holed up with his ape cohort, the apes make plans to flee across the desert in search of a safe place to settle.
    — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • The two watched acrobats in black body suits and ape ears — a nod to Kubrick’s film — swivel on a display in front of a re-creation of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz joint mission.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
  • All starred Serkis as Caesar, leader of the ape civilization.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • That event will also raise money for the ape sanctuaries.
    — Johnny Diaz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • In 2009, Begun reached out to Ward, an expert on ape pelvis anatomy, for help in analyzing the bone fragment.
    — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The first part of the movie shows an alien artifact—a black monolith—that appears in the world of our ape ancestors, and starts the process that leads to modern civilization.
    — Stephen Wolfram, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • But the bikers come anyway, astride choppers and ape hangers, V-Twins shaking the wet pavement, and a rope or two hanging off handlebars—to whip cars that get too close.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2018
  • 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.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2018
  • On July 21, art collectors and ape lovers alike will have the chance to purchase the art, including pieces from Bubbles, best known as singer Michael Jackson’s former chimpanzee.
    — By Brooke Henderson, miamiherald, 28 June 2017
  • Students primed with black faces detected ape images more quickly.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
  • In fact, his distrust of humans doesn’t extend to the mute orphan, Nova (Amiah Miller), who is welcomed into ape society.
    — Cary Darling, star-telegram, 12 July 2017
  • Jungers holds open the possibility that the Shangchen toolmaker was a species of Australopithecus, a group of more ape-like hominins to which the iconic fossil Lucy belongs.
    — Colin Barras, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • Once there, the group quickly encounters Kong, who looks much bigger and less ape-like than most previous incarnations --strutting around upright on two legs a la Bigfoot.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 30 June 2017
  • The evidence suggests that, like contemporaries from other sites, the male hominin likely dined on a tough, ape-like diet of seeds, grasses and similar fare.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The stars and stripes wave over a vast concentration camp that houses ape slaves in subsimian, never mind subhuman, conditions.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • Oldman plays a human leader who is suspicious of the burgeoning ape society in the middle chapter of this prequel series.
    — cleveland.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Testing this research in children too young to speak made Buttelmann wonder whether the same test could be used for other animals—namely, our close ape ancestors.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Those who knew sign language now talk; and Caesar, the ape leader, is giving Obama-level oratory and is playing the dozens with human adversaries.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 13 July 2017
  • Parents were concerned that students of color would play ape characters, according to the Journal News newspaper.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Danuvius is undoubtedly a very important fossil, with lots to teach us about how varied ape locomotion can be.
    — Vivien Shaw, Quartz, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Here’s just one component — research shows that the perception of black people as subhuman and ape-like directly informs the public’s view of whether police brutality against a black suspect is deserved.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 May 2018
  • 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.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018

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