chaperon
Example Sentences
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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
Lubin positioned himself as the grownup in the room, the worldly chaperon.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
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
Nassar was never to perform this type of treatment again without a chaperon in the room and would modify it, he agreed, to minimize skin to skin contact.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2018
Mr. Tamba told her that he was the CAW chaperon going on the trip with us and that he would make sure that we returned to Sierra Leone at the end of the conference.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
