PROTECT in a Sentence

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For PROTECT, below is one of 403 sentences:
I wanted to marry you and protect you and give you a free rein in anything that would make you happy--just as I did Bonnie.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROTECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
protect
 v.  shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Of course, he was the only boy his mother had and, after all, somebody had to be in the militia to protect the state.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Johnston was forced to abandon the heights he had held so well, in order to protect his rear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  There had always been someone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  She had never in her life been out in the sunshine without a hat or veils, never handled reins without gloves to protect the white skin of her dimpled hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  No husband nor brother nor even a father now to protect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  She made him feel, for the first time in his old-maidish life, that he was a strong upstanding man fashioned by God in a nobler mold than other men, fashioned to protect silly helpless women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  She drove the long miles to the mill with only the disapproving Uncle Peter to protect her and the woods were full of free niggers and Yankee riffraff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  And thousands of men, who had laid down their arms at Appomattox, had taken them up again and stood ready to risk their necks on a minute's notice to protect those women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  They were responsible for a situation that forced a woman to keep a murderer at her side to protect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  I wanted to marry you and protect you and give you a free rein in anything that would make you happy--just as I did Bonnie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
11  From even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must of course have been most anxious to protect himself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
12  Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
13  She was splendid and robust, and had never appeared handsomer than in the old blue gown, with a red silk handkerchief knotted at random around her head to protect her hair from the dust.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
14  He had to protect her, to do battle for her against the horror he saw about them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  He put up his hands to protect his face, but Jurgis, lunging with all the power of his arm and body, struck him fairly between the eyes and knocked him backward.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
16  My main concern now is to protect the children.
17  Stronger legal safeguards are needed to protect the consumer.
18  Such laws could protect the consumer from harmful or dangerous remedies.
19  These suits are designed to protect the wearer from cold shock as they enter the water.
20  We have a moral obligation to protect the environment.
21  It's everyone's duty to love and protect the environment.
22  Recycling is important to help protect our environment.
23  We all have a responsibility to protect the environment.
24  Governments of many countries have established laws to protect the air, forests and sea resources and to stop environmental pollution.
25  The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
26  The President authorizes the judicious use of military force to protect our citizens.
27  We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
28  It's important to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun.
29  The purpose of the law is to protect the right of the individual.
30  The law should protect the liberty of the individual.