protective

Example Sentences

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Did she give you any advice or was she protective of you on set?

From Los Angeles Times

Heating or cooling the body creates a small stress, she says, which may trigger adaptive or protective responses.

From BBC

The glitchy Permian plumbing is forcing producers to drill through zones of high pressure, fortify their wells with additional strings of casing, and use protective coating against corrosive saltwater.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most turkeys, however, would have their feet coated in a protective layer of hot tar and sand.

From BBC

A second genetic region included several mucin genes that help form the gut's protective mucus layer and was associated with bacteria from the Firmicutes group.

From Science Daily