overprotective

Example Sentences

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For many years American Jewish writing seemed to be all about sons—sons launched from Chicago, Brooklyn and the Bronx, sons of overprotective mothers, comics punning on “the son also rises.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

That can make people vulnerable, and it can also make well-intentioned children overprotective.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

Then I added the wife, who is an overprotective Italian American mother who is a breast cancer survivor — my wife is a breast cancer survivor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Written by Gwen Stefani and her brother Eric, the song was about her frustrations at being a young woman in the world, including difficulties with her overprotective parents.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2023

“My parents are still married. I have to call them at the same time every night—in thirty minutes, actually. They're overprotective, I guess, but normal. We're really boring.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green