chaperon

Example Sentences

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In its policy, Simon said youths and their adult chaperons may be asked to show driver’s licenses or other proof of age, and those without identification will be denied entry or asked to leave.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2024

Scrambling to meet the judge’s reunification timeline, government chaperons transported children from shelters scattered across the country to immigration jails near the border where they’d been severed from their parents weeks or months before.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2018

The station reported that Burrows and Duffy were supposed to be chaperons at the school dance, which it reported was held in May at a hotel.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2018

But with or without your chaperons you’ll get there, you always get there, and you’re always on time, except during those exceptions when exceptional things seem to happen which simply can’t be helped.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017

Our chaperons didn’t come with us; they went back to the hotel.

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