Example sentences for: chipper

How can you use “chipper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then again, perhaps you're just a more chipper traveler than I am; you seemed to enjoy all your guidebooks equally.

  • Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."

  • 2) Gibson is too chipper for a noir hero: "[H]e's like a chipmunk with a Smith & Wesson" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Slate 's David Edelstein calls it "inflated Pocket Books pulp."

  • Actually, Prudie finds "There you go" to be a rather chipper bon voyage at the end of one's transaction.

  • But she has taken a lot of flack lately for her chipper enthusiasm about movies everyone else hated, such as The Phantom Menace or Eyes Wide Shut.


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