look after
Example Sentences
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Because in East London, you learn that there is a moral baseline, that there is a right way of behaving, and you’re taught to respect your elders and to sort of look after everyone.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
"Many of the families we look after at Chas are in poverty and many of them have given up their jobs to look after their children, they are full-time carers," Okasha said.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
School monitors recruited and trained by the city help look after children outside the classroom, including in the evening before their parents can pick them up.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Some are fiduciaries, bound by pledges to look after your best interests, while others — even some good ones — are not fiduciaries.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
“I can look after myself and my children,” she said, slightly emphasising the “myself’ and “my children” so that we might understand, “but not my in-laws as well.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
