PROTECTION in a Sentence

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For PROTECTION, below is one of 403 sentences:
The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs responded that the protection of refugees was a matter for an international organization.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROTECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
protection
 n.  the activity of protecting someone or something
 n.  the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He luxuriated in the sense of protection and authority which his words conveyed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  She and Melanie were alone in a big house "and without male protection," wrote Miss Pittypat, "now that dear Charlie has gone."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Besides, he was now more firmly than ever under the protection of the fragile Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Never again could Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure beneath her father's roof with the protection of her mother's love wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Wade, peering from the protection of her skirts at the sound of her cry, found speech and courage in a mighty sob.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  But for a woman to leave the protection of her home and venture out into the rough world of men, competing with them in business, rubbing shoulders with them, being exposed to insult and gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  He didn't seem to realize what a slender fingerhold they had on security and how important it was to make more money in these troublous times when money was the only protection against fresh calamities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  But these ignominies and dangers were as nothing compared with the peril of white women, many bereft by the war of male protection, who lived alone in the outlying districts and on lonely roads.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  By June she must have money enough to give her at least some little protection against misfortune.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  Their glance sealed the bargain that the protection of Ashley Wilkes from a too harsh world was passing from one woman to another and that Ashley's masculine pride should never be humbled by this knowledge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
11  The "honor" of grown women who were glad enough to be supported by the Grizzard boys and Ed Coy, as long as the liaison was not known, needed protection; they were white.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
12  These men were a mile beyond the city limits and police protection; hearing that Barrett's crowd was coming to attack them Saturday night, they mustered forces, and prepared to defend themselves against the attack.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
13  Memphis is fast losing her black population, who proclaim as they go that there is no protection for the life and property of any Afro-American citizen in Memphis who is not a slave.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  They always had the policeman "squared," and so there was no use in expecting protection.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  Then he came to a farm-house, and after getting himself a stick for protection, he approached it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
16  You don't have to sacrifice environmental protection to promote economic growth.
17  This thorny problem on the environmental protection floored the new mayor.
18  The company employed lawyers to find loopholes in environmental protection laws.
19  The conference discussed, among other things, the problem of environmental protection.
20  We need to establish a legal framework for the protection of the environment.
21  The new law on the protection of the environments is applicable to everybody from next year.
22  On children, use a cream with a high sun protection factor.
23  The kind of institution that can best provide the protection depends on the nature of the transaction, an issue discussed later.
24  Many institutions are formulating guidelines to insure the protection of the rights of persons housed by that institution.
25  Everyone has an inviolable right to protection by a fair legal system.
26  He's been charged with extorting protection money from the shopkeepers.
27  Such a diet is widely believed to offer protection against a number of cancers.
28  The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs responded that the protection of refugees was a matter for an international organization.
29  Those who want to take child abuse seriously today must stake out a humane child protection practice.
30  The shady trees provide protection against the burning rays of the sun.