Example Sentences

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The only constants have been chippiness and trash talk.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

“The team that’s happy, can you stay even keel in the moment? And the team that’s pissed, are they going to do something about it? That’s really why the chippiness comes out.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2021

It's direct competition in the eight-team U.S. divisions and seven-team Canadian division for four playoff spots each, which leads to what Winnipeg forward Adam Lowry called "a little more chippiness."

From Fox News • Feb. 11, 2021

There was an inclination to chippiness that many of the nouveaux fans displayed.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018

There should have been a luncheon-party in this act, with Dr. Relling and M�lvik, who would have been in a state of comic "chippiness," after his excesses overnight.

From Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas by Anstey, F.