How to Use chummy in a Sentence

chummy

adjective
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  • She was getting chummy with the reporters.
  • The two of them were in that closet, all chummy, for an hour.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Get chummy with the concierge at your hotel (or the chef!) and pick their brain about the best places to eat in the area.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 20 Aug. 2018
  • This seemed to make the 7,000-seat room — half the size of most of the other venues on Springsteen’s tour — even more chummy.
    — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • It’s about staying present and close but not chummy with the abuser.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
  • In the flash-forward, Madison and Kevin are very chummy.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • Through the years her parents, Rick and Barb Thomas, became chummy with the owners.
    — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, Lake County News-Sun, 23 May 2018
  • Claire’s Walsh is a chummy working man who’d be just as at home at a potluck as at a union meeting.
    — Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Techler, Vulture, 30 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, the two appeared to be pretty chummy in the days that followed.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • For starters, both Kelce and Swift are chummy with actor Miles Teller.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In the months since, Amazon’s relationship with the White House has been less than chummy.
    — Dana Mattioli, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Obviously, fans lost it at the sight of the chummy reunion.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 15 May 2017
  • The pair got chummy as Barrymore knelt before Liu on set.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Ms. May is polite but not chummy, works late and does not hang around Parliament’s bars.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 13 July 2016
  • Kevin and Madison are so chummy on Kate's wedding day, despite having called off the wedding in the present day.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • But others in the rank-and-file thought Curry was too chummy with the establishment and would not push hard enough to get what the workers want.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But Nickel wasn’t exactly chummy, rarely speaking when the two of them made their sweeps.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The president seems to want to be chummy with Putin instead of challenging him.
    — Fox News, 22 July 2018
  • Again, there's no sign of them being extra chummy during the goodbye hugs.
    — refinery29.com, 22 May 2018
  • Both Bonet and Momoa remain chummy with her ex-husband, Lenny Kravitz.
    — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Chapek was known as not being the most creative-friendly exec in town, while Iger is known as being much more chummy.
    — Vulture, 12 July 2023
  • Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber are the best kind of hosts—chummy, clever, and in on the joke—and this is the epitome of easy, fun listening.
    — Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Don’t expect things to become chummy-chummy between the two sides.
    — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • And the film hits all the right notes for a great ski film: sweeping unfamiliar landscapes, badass descents, and the chummy laughing that makes these things fun.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Brant/Bront/Brent seems to have become quite chummy with Nelson in the intervening years.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 23 July 2018
  • But for most of its history, the nation's highest court has looked like a chummy private men's club from a not-so-distant time.
    — Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The two were spotted together looking chummy inside the Met Gala last night.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 8 May 2018
  • But either way, the optics aren't great with officials and teams looking this chummy.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
  • But either way, the optics aren’t great with officials and teams looking this chummy.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The leads’ chummy reunion begs the question, are Harry and Helen back for more adventure?
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 29 July 2019

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