chaperon

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Any children Mike Pence had with Greta Garbo would want to be left alone, but with a chaperon.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2017

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