"protective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- John is a protective brother who wants Rena to have a new life and be afforded all the opportunities she deserves.
- Just what he needed: a protective brother!
- I didn't have a protective big brother: all I had was a small sister.
- She had always considered him a friend, a supporter, the closest thing she had to a protective older brother.
- He always seemed friendly and sweet and solicitous, like a protective big brother.
- Again Roland thought of one sister and two protective brothers.
- But he was coming on a little heavy with the protective older brother bit.
- And for just an instant, all the instincts of the protective brother rose up in him- But they subsided just as quickly.
- Her protective older brother choked up a bit as he threw that futon into the back of the truck.
- His face remained almost expressionless but his tone was that of a protective older brother.
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