How to Use chump in a Sentence
chump
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This was a pay-to-play political scam at its ugliest—and the rest of us are the chumps.
—Josh Hoxie, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
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The Gophers almost went from wannabe champs to looking-to-be chumps.
—Bob Sansevere, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
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In those days, tuition didn’t exist or was chump change.
—George Skelton, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
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Until then, playing both ends of back-to-backs is for rookies, lightweights and chumps.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
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That’s chump change for a federal program, but in the arts, that kind of money goes a long way.
—Morgan Jerkins, New Republic, 26 July 2017
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Bullies are straight up wack, corny, cowards, chumps, etc, etc!
—Mark Heim, AL.com, 11 Dec. 2017
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Stuck working in the city like a chump while your friends make their weekend treks to coastal properties?
—Shannon Rooney, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
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Maybe next time, chump! Plus, everyone loves our all-you-can-eat tampon bar at lunch.
—Anna Silman, The Cut, 13 Apr. 2018
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That might be chump change in the scheme of things, but for an alleged billionaire whose net worth is in a slump, every dollar counts.
—Bess Levin, The Hive, 21 June 2017
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Old Verlander is making the Verlander of old look like a chump.
—Jon Tayler, SI.com, 17 May 2018
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What if, somehow, Larry got hurt stepping over this chump?
—Greg Moore, azcentral, 21 Apr. 2018
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Being Chuck-ed by The Men not only leaves another welt in a psyche stuffed with them, but also marks you as a chump.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 28 July 2021
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That was nice, but that’s chump change compared to what’s possible in these transactions.
—Melinda Crow, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2017
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Any country that clings to transnational idealism is, in Trump’s view, a chump.
—William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 17 Jan. 2017
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. made Canelo Alvarez look like a chump back in 2013.
—Adi Joseph, USA TODAY, 10 May 2017
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Mr Trump scorns all those involved in past dealings with North Korea as chumps whose weakness explains why the Kim regime is still around.
—The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
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In the N.F.L.’s world, displays of principle and common economic sense are for chumps.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
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Nash thinks that the butterfly uses M.ruginodis as a back-up host, a safe chump to manipulate when M.rubra evolves a strong enough resistance to its lies.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2010
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The setup covered all of her expenses and brought in an extra $100 per month in cash — far from chump change for a grad student, and enough that Alexy caught the real estate bug.
—Arielle O'Shea, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017
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The Dodgers and Giants, both playoff teams last season, pieced their rosters together with plenty more than chump change.
—Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2017
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Their aim is to not to convince but to foment cynicism, apathy and a sense that believing official accounts is for chumps.
—The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
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Joining the co-hosts in blue-hued purgatory is interim showrunner Michael Davies, who replaced that chump of a man who tried to give himself the hosting gig earlier this year.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
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If, as Mock suggests, the organic consumer could be seen as a chump, Constant’s greater disregard may have been for the organic regulators and traders who agreed to take him at his word.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
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Where scrollers labored to bedevil one target and made their pranks clear, trolls cast indiscriminate lines for chumps and hide their intentions.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2018
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This week's chump: Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general once famous for even-handed integrity, is the president's fall guy in the Comey firing.
—Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 12 May 2017
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That's chump change when compared with Uber's whopping market valuation of $50 billion to $60 billion.
—Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
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Authorities implicitly were chumps, giving up more than a million dollars in liquor tax revenue from a closed store and getting back only $2,000.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
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That should be chump change even in this financial climate considering the costs related to a potential eruption of Newberry.
—Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2011
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Benjamin Franklin might’ve been the greatest polymath since Leonardo da Vinci — yes, polymath; look it up, chumps — a politician, Freemason, author, inventor, even a postmaster.
—Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2018
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In my first biology textbooks in middle or high school, an 18th-century French biologist named Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was the chump of the chapters on evolution.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
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