CHAPERON in a Sentence

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She couldn't have been very nice or she wouldn't have gone out with him in the late afternoon without a chaperon.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHAPERON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chaperon
 n.  person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies a young unmarried woman in public; a guide or companion to ensure propriety or restrict activity
Classic Sentence:
1  She couldn't have been very nice or she wouldn't have gone out with him in the late afternoon without a chaperon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  It would put her in such a bad light as a chaperon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Fern begged her to go as chaperon to a barn-dance in the country, on a Saturday evening.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  In Petersburg there was a moment when a chaperon was absolutely essential for me.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
5  And Miss Kate strolled away, adding to herself with a shrug, "I didn't come to chaperone a governess, though she is young and pretty."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
6  They organized bazaars and presided over sewing circles, they chaperoned balls and picnics, they knew who made good matches and who did not, who drank secretly, who were to have babies and when.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  The walls were banked with pine branches that gave out a spicy smell, making the corners of the room into pretty bowers where the chaperons and old ladies would sit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  He laughed too, and so loudly that several of the chaperons in the corner looked their way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  I know the gentle rivalry to lead the reels very well and so-- The doctor mopped his brow and cast a quizzical glance at the corner, where his wife sat among the chaperons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  The chaperons' corner was in tumult and Mrs. Meade, anxious to support her husband in an action of which she heartily disapproved, was at a disadvantage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  For a fleeting instant she saw Melanie's incredulous face, the look on the chaperons' faces, the petulant girls, the enthusiastic approval of the soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  And here, except when I have the kids in gymnasium class, or when I'm chaperoning the basket-ball team on a trip out-of-town, I won't dare to move above a whisper.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  After avoiding their chaperon, the lovers had a clandestine meeting.
2  His wife does not speak on her own in public, she says only what she is told what to say, and she had to have chaperon in her interview.