chaperon

Example Sentences

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"It was quite emotional because the plan was always for Andrea to chaperon Jacob on any flights he was offered," Andrew said, of the bittersweet experience.

From Fox News

“Love and I” is a book about the frayed beginnings and endings of a person’s life, when consciousness provides no chaperon.

From The New Yorker

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

From The New Yorker

The more angles of the conflict that I watched, the more unsettled I was by the teens’ behavior — and by their chaperons’ inaction.

From The Verge

Lubin positioned himself as the grownup in the room, the worldly chaperon.

From The New Yorker