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How to use chaperone in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Chaperone means an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman. Example: “But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.”

Examples of chaperone by meaning

verbTo act as a chaperone.

  • But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company...
  • 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27
  • TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49

More sentences with chaperone

  • Motti’s dates are similar to bashows, or chaperoned quasi-dates in one of the parents’ homes (chasidic).2019 November 19, Eli Reiter, “New Shiksa, Same Old Chasidic Stereotypes”, in New York Jewish Week, archived from the original on 15 Jun…. From the entry chaperoned
  • "I shall feel myself a failure as a chaperone surely," remarked Mrs.Green.1919, Nell Speed, Tripping With the Tucker Twins. From the entry tweedle
  • The same attributes are found in a very similar eukaryotic cytosolic chaperone, prefoldin, which assists in binding cytoskeletal unfolded proteins.2015 July 28, Ohad Suss, Dana Reichmann, “Protein plasticity underlines activation and function of ATP-independent chaperones”, in…. From the entry prefoldin
  • Surprisingly, a cluster of oligosaccharyl transferase (OST) complex and TRiC chaperone complex proteins were observed in the STRING analysis.2015 December 22, “Cyclophilin C Participates in the US2-Mediated Degradation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules”, in…. From the entry oligosaccharyl
  • Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones.2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47. From the entry grand
  • A systems view on the entire "chaperome" would be essential to understand chaperone function under basal and stress conditions.2011, Andreas Wyttenbach, Shmma Quraishe, Joanne Bailey, Vincent O’Connor, “Molecular Chaperones in the Mammalian Brain: Regional…. From the entry chaperome
  • Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry hipster
  • An undergraduette could only visit an undergraduate in his room if chaperoned by another undergraduette, and within strictly limited hours.1973, John Hutchison MacCallum Scott, Dons and students: British universities today, page 102. From the entry undergraduette
  • But even the halt, the blind et al. would cut up canticoes and Smash gas fixtures unless they were properly chaperoned.1919, Work with Boys - Volumes 19-20 -, page 56. From the entry cantico
  • Many cells make heat-shock proteins when they get uncomfortably warm, which can act as molecular chaperones that guide denatured proteins back to their folded state.2025, Philip Ball, “Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works. Tiny specks called biomolecular…. From the entry gloppy
  • Molecular chaperones of the heat shock protein (Hsp) family are prominent members of the exportome, including a number of Hsp40s and a Hsp70.2016 February 5, “The Malarial Exported PFA0660w Is an Hsp40 Co-Chaperone of PfHsp70-x”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry exportome
  • As a part of that network, holdase chaperones are able to communicate with other chaperones in the network, to achieve refolding of misfolded clients.2015 July 28, Ohad Suss, Dana Reichmann, “Protein plasticity underlines activation and function of ATP-independent chaperones”, in…. From the entry holdase
  • This transition is initiated by disassembly of the dodecamers to suboligomeric species which are then reassembled to produce the active form of the chaperone.2015 July 28, Ohad Suss, Dana Reichmann, “Protein plasticity underlines activation and function of ATP-independent chaperones”, in…. From the entry suboligomeric
  • One looked like a Puma; the other, smaller and hovering just above and behind in a chaperone position, was clearly an Apache.2011, Chris Ryan, Killing for the Company, Coronet, →ISBN, page 308. From the entry heli
  • Please, dear reader, read these words in the spirit of a hatred for the late zeitgeistification which favors chaperoning of thought and creation over a free run of the mind.1989, P-Form: Performance Art Magazine, Chicago, I.L.: Randolph Street Gallery, page 5. From the entry zeitgeistification

Meaning of chaperone

  1. noun An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  2. noun A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
  3. noun An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

Full definition of chaperone

Questions about chaperone in a sentence

How do you use chaperone in a sentence?
Chaperone is used as a noun and verb. For example: “But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.”
What is a short sentence with chaperone?
“Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones.”
What does chaperone mean?
Chaperone means an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.

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