chaperon

Example Sentences

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They didn’t allow her to go out of the house without one of them as a chaperon.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

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

“Alice in the Cities” tells the delightful and charming story of a German journalist who tours the United States and meets a woman who asks him to chaperon her 9-year-old daughter back to Europe.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017

They had said all along that when I was eighteen and going to college, I could go out with boys, and then only in the company of a chaperon.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals