chaperon

Example Sentences

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They didn’t allow her to go out of the house without one of them as a chaperon.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

The three girls aged 13, 10, and 9 arrived early in the morning Thursday, were detained and barred entry into the country along with their cousin chaperon who immigration authorities deemed “inadmissible.”

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2019

At the outset, the company plans on offering fully autonomous rides, with a Waymo employee in the car only as a chaperon.

From The Verge • Aug. 21, 2018

But she inexplicably goes beyond the call of duty to chaperon him across America to visit Kevin Costner on a movie set.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2015

Mr. Tamba told her that he was the CAW chaperon going on the trip with us and that he would make sure that we returned to Sierra Leone at the end of the conference.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah