tutelary

Example Sentences

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In an ideal world, our entertainment would not have to be tutelary, would not need to “set a good example.”

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2019

Having no children of his own, Guadagnino has fallen into a tutelary role toward the young people in his life.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The production’s central figures include a young African mother, in perpetual flight and exile, and a Native American, who presides as sort of a tutelary spirit over her fraught travels.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014

I leave the last word to The Review Show's tutelary spirit, Tom Paulin.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013

Venus was the tutelary goddess of Rome, she was the goddess of maternity, of production.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)