How to Use chat up in a Sentence

chat up

phrasal verb

• The stations should be able to capture the codas of whales chatting up to twelve miles from shore.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes just chatting up people in the same sport can yield a find.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• The show must go on, but Badu didn't let the concert stop her from chatting up Boyega.
  — USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• Naturally, a woman chatted up the group in front of Ryan and cut in line.
  — Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• Greg wanders over to the bar where Matsson is chatting up his partner in Swedish.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• Yet a middle-class version of Old Pat could chat up a group of old folks and become instant friends.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Despite her new look, learning to chat up prospective suitors isn’t a skill Pen can purchase from the modiste.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 May 2024
• McGill helped one third grader ride his bike around the playground while holding the back of the seat, while Bahati chatted up parents.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2023
• Anyone looking for restaurant space should chat up Kevin Tien.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• When he’s told to chat up a potential buyer for his yarn sculpture, the man mistakes Aren for a waiter.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• The next day, Rebecca decides to visit Seven Oaks to chat up some of the residents.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
• Everyone was so sweet and thoughtful to our boys, chatting up Miles about his day and latest drawing and playing peek-a-boo with Leo.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2024
• But the New Hampshire resident would rather mentor younger coworkers and chat up clients than measure putts on a green.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• Hawke went to the game with his son Levon, who was initially seated between his father and the singer, though Hawke later switched seats to chat up Rihanna.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
• Mason first saw that picture on TV while getting Sunday brunch and chatting up some fellow soccer fans.
  — Bob Smietana, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Next, trying to chat up Chicago manager Herman Franks around the batting cage, all the scribe gets from genial Herm is surly grunts and tobacco splatters on his sneaks.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2023
• The teen frontman can be seen chatting up the audience before breaking into song, backed up by a couple of band members on keyboard and guitar.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
• That Gray would one day chat up the commissioner before throwing a scoreless inning in the All-Star Game was not something anybody expected.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• While Chang chats up chefs in the kitchen, Teigen and Booster engage in unfiltered conversations with a rotating roster of celebrity guests at the table.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Several men sit on worn chairs outside the mission, passing a joint and chatting up passersby when Truelove arrives a few minutes before noon.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Willie Gutierrez, who has a tent on 51st, was initially interested, chatting up the outreach workers who set up folding chairs on a nearby overpass.
  — David Zahniser, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• Handler liked to periodically chat up people in the factories and ask for ideas and Mitchell asked Handler to consider creating Black version of the doll.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 June 2024
• Fong, 29, took periodic hits from her vape while chatting up reporters, doling out her number and self-deprecating one-liners for stories.
  — Tracy Wang, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Wednesday, the day Biden stopped at a Sheetz market on a western Pennsylvania campaign swing, buying snacks, posing for photos and chatting up patrons and employees.
  — Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2024
• Boy George, in a bejeweled oversized hat, chatted up women in evening gowns while Alessandra Ambrosio admired a poodle mix puppy that came as a European gentleman’s plus-one.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 24 May 2023
• Along the Fremont Street pedestrian mall, under signs that advertised a steak and lobster dinner for $13.99, pairs of flamingo girls lingered in their flamboyant headdresses and lingerie, chatting up guys to have their picture taken with them.
  — Billy Witz Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Photos captured the Boyhood Oscar nominee animatedly chatting up the music superstar, 35.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024