How to Use chump in a Sentence

chump

noun
  • Bullies are straight up wack, corny, cowards, chumps, etc, etc!
    — Mark Heim, AL.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Until then, playing both ends of back-to-backs is for rookies, lightweights and chumps.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • The Gophers almost went from wannabe champs to looking-to-be chumps.
    — Bob Sansevere, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That was nice, but that’s chump change compared to what’s possible in these transactions.
    — Melinda Crow, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • The former Gladiators who felt exploited by the show don’t want to be seen as chumps.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • Dutton is reluctant at first but soon unleashes his fists on two chumps to the tune of $420.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Old Verlander is making the Verlander of old look like a chump.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • Who think that kindness, tolerance and sacrifice aren’t strictly for chumps.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
  • With all the accolades bestowed upon her, Brittney Griner is a chump of a player.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Shell is not entering the EV charging game with this chump-change purchase of Volta.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Lane, often portrayed as either an intrepid journalist or a love-lorn chump, is decidedly the former here.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 6 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe the Trumps are right and my family boasts a lot of chumps, sending six men off to World War II alone.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • While a single-digit decline in real terms, a $4 billion loss is neither chump nor Trump change for any shareholders.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The Yiddish term encompasses a range of pejorative types, from chump to fool to awkward bungler.
    — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Among Cederquist’s chump-change payoffs, in addition to the candy, were bottled water, a snow blower and a granite mailbox.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Working cooperatively with other nations that share our values and goals does not make the United States a chump.
    — Joseph R. Biden, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This new three-part docuseries interviews Belfort's former wife, his co-conspirators, and his victims to dive deep into how his boiler room operation pumped, dumped, and ripped off chumps.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
  • 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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