protector

Example Sentences

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“Charge my phone?” asked another, and Gil submitted the device into a tangle of cords growing from a surge protector.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Especially the tiniest ones, like a cricket that reminds him that he was once a protector.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

If it keeps going, the pragmatic stock-price protector may decide to slow down on new investments.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

“That target, moving around with a chest protector on and a hand mitt, is me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach, my protector mounted his own seat, sounded his hollow horn, and away we rattled over the “stony street” of L——.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë