overprotect

Example Sentences

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“I was abused, and my mom started to overprotect me,” he said.

From Washington Times

They overprotected him, and he became more and more a tolerated appendage to a large extended clan without his wide-ranging cultural interests.

From Los Angeles Times

The protagonist, Chihiro, begins as a petulant adolescent: Her “skinny legs and sulky face” symbolize her overprotected, underdeveloped personality.

From New York Times

“My father’s dream was for me to become somebody, to be educated. I was overprotected in the house. I was not to do house chores, but to study all the time,” Habte said.

From Los Angeles Times

“Maybe we have very fragile institutions and there is a tendency to overprotect them. Mature societies, after all, can deal with these kinds of criticisms without having to go to courts of law.”

From The Guardian