chaperon

Example Sentences

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Should it materialize, the takeover would be the latest disturbance at the Torrance shopping center, which recently instituted a chaperon policy after several large youth melees.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2024

The three girls aged 13, 10, and 9 arrived early in the morning Thursday, were detained and barred entry into the country along with their cousin chaperon who immigration authorities deemed “inadmissible.”

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2019

At the outset, the company plans on offering fully autonomous rides, with a Waymo employee in the car only as a chaperon.

From The Verge • Aug. 21, 2018

By mid-month, Venus and Mars appear closer by a few degrees in the west-southwestern sky after dusk and may need a cosmic chaperon to keep them apart.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2016

Since both the crate and the cushion were very narrow, we were sitting quite close, leaning against two other crates; Mouschi kept us company, so we weren’t without a chaperon.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank