PROTECT in a Sentence

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403 example sentences for PROTECT, such as:
1. My prime concern is to protect my property.
2. Women banded together to protect each other.
3. Account details are encrypted to protect privacy.
4. Footballers often wear shin pads to protect their legs.
5. No husband nor brother nor even a father now to protect her.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROTECT
protect
 v.  shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
 v.  use tariffs to favor domestic industry
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  No husband nor brother nor even a father now to protect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  Most people accept the proposition that we have a duty to protect endangered animals.
2  Account details are encrypted to protect privacy.
3  The state has a duty to protect its citizens against external enemies.
4  I feel that not enough is being done to protect the local animal life.
5  Police and bodyguards had to protect him as the almost hysterical crowds struggled to approach him.
6  Troops have been sent to protect aid workers against attack.
7  A deputy attorney general sat ready to protect the interests of the State of California.
8  No matter how far away forever, I will protect you everything.
9  Women banded together to protect each other.
10  Footballers often wear shin pads to protect their legs.
11  Exercise will not only lower blood pressure but possibly protect against heart attacks.
12  Teachers have no choice but to take measures to protect themselves.
13  Each company is fighting to protect its own commercial interests.
14  My prime concern is to protect my property.
15  The Red Cross's primary concern is to preserve and protect human life.