chaperone
Example Sentences
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When Simpson was in elementary school, the UT-Martin coaches assigned one of their graduate assistants to chaperone him during practices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
Following a review in February 2018, the committee decided the chaperone must not be related to him.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
In addition, NRP1 was found to be a molecular chaperone, or a protein that aids in the trafficking of other proteins in the cell -- in this case, TrkA.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
Some of her other most memorable roles include the 1985 Merchant Ivory film A Room With a View, in which she played the chaperone Charlotte Barlett, accompanying Helen Bonham Carter's Lucy Honeychurch to Italy.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2024
Every time Jaimito took Dede out, Minerva, of course, came along as their chaperone, and they picked up Lio along the way.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing chaperone
"My Favorite Chaperone," Vocabulary from the short story
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"My Favorite Chaperone" by Jean Davies Okimoto
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