chaperon
Example Sentences
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Should it materialize, the takeover would be the latest disturbance at the Torrance shopping center, which recently instituted a chaperon policy after several large youth melees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
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
Since both the crate and the cushion were very narrow, we were sitting quite close, leaning against two other crates; Mouschi kept us company, so we weren’t without a chaperon.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
