How to Use chinstrap in a Sentence

chinstrap

noun
  • Boy, did helmets and chinstraps get expensive.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • These are buckle-your-chinstrap kinds of games, the ones that make the NFL the king of all sports.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Their survival also supports the idea that the volcanic eruption was not a factor in the chinstrap's demise.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The island's chinstrap population has been falling at a rate of 7% per year.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Immediately, Muller ripped off her chinstrap, her helmet tossed to the ice.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Zavodovski is home to both chinstraps and macaroni penguins, which have distinctive yellow feather plumes on their heads.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The helmets’ one-size-fits-all design comprised a manganese steel outer shell and an adjustable inner lining that was attached to a leather chinstrap.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Mangione, his feet shackled, wore a tan jail suit and sported a chinstrap beard at Friday's hearing, a departure from his usual clean-shaven look.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the scientists linked the drop in chinstrap numbers to a reduction in the availability of krill -- the tiny shrimp-like creatures that are their main food source.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Warming ocean temperatures have pushed the crustaceans south toward colder waters, which chinstraps do not tolerate.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Hardy Nickerson, playing in his fifth Pro Bowl, told Vincent to buckle up his chinstrap and be ready to play and win a physical game.
    — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The guy hasn’t snapped a chinstrap since Week 7 of the 2024 season, when his knee decided to call it a career in San Francisco a few years early.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Surveys in 2011 had concluded that chinstrap populations across the South Sandwich Islands were stable.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Together, chinstraps and macaronis now total more than 835,000 on Zavodovski.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The study's findings raise concerns that chinstrap populations across the South Sandwich Islands, which include Zavodovski and are home to 38% of the species, have fallen.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Not only do the chinstraps and Adelies have more competition for food from gentoos because of the warming and changes in plankton and krill, but the changes have brought more commercial fishing that comes earlier and that further shortens the supply for the penguins, Suttle said.
    — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The island is also home to a different species, macaroni penguins, whose population rose from around 338,000 in 2011 to 433,000 in 2025 -- and now outnumber chinstraps.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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