chaperon

Example Sentences

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"It was quite emotional because the plan was always for Andrea to chaperon Jacob on any flights he was offered," Andrew said, of the bittersweet experience.

From Fox News

“Love and I” is a book about the frayed beginnings and endings of a person’s life, when consciousness provides no chaperon.

From The New Yorker

The more angles of the conflict that I watched, the more unsettled I was by the teens’ behavior — and by their chaperons’ inaction.

From The Verge

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

Scrambling to meet the judge’s reunification deadline, government chaperons transported children from shelters scattered across the country to immigration jails near the border where they had been severed from their parents weeks or months before.

From Washington Post