"protective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They are certainly acting in a protective manner.
- Julia's head whipped toward the voice, her hands flying up in a protective manner as she flattened herself against the building at her back.
- Later, Otto Pollak (1950) claimed that men were socialised to treat women in a fatherly and protective manner.
- The Talaxian pressed the tribble, which had almost stopped its frightened quivering, to his chest in a protective manner, and hurried out of the laboratory.
- Now possessing nearly unlimited power himself, he feels additional responsibility to behave in a compassionate and protective manner to others similarly threatened.
- His protective manner, and his sureness, and his intimacy, puzzled her.
- She hadn't told him about Cassius, yet his expression was tight and he'd immediately moved closer to her in a protective manner.
- He asked concernedly after her injuries, and congratulated her upon her escape in a most protective manner.
- Without thinking she curled her legs up underneath herself in a somewhat protective manner.
- Medications should be disposed of in a safe and environmentally protective manner.
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