How to Use protégée in a Sentence

protégée

noun
  • One Brown protegee, Mike Smith, is among the newer consultants to gain renown.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Spencer couldn’t wait to share the news of Rhodes’ 86-78 win in overtime at Glenville and what his protegee had just done.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • When Little John struggles to describe his dream girl, Robin instructs his protegee to sketch an image with words.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • If a male leader or peer does not have female protegees, offer these tips to encourage them to diversify the impact of their mentorship.
    — NBC News, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Provide tools and resources to help sponsors connect with their protegees and understand their career aspirations.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The board dumped his protegee Bob Chapek soon after, when the company’s stock price nosedived and subscriber growth for the Disney+ service stalled.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2023
  • She’s taken on her tour by the grumpy Liz, played by Oona Laurence, who doesn’t want to take on a protegee, who just wants to rescue her brother and fight monsters.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • His protegee got the championship ball rolling orchestrating the moves that landed them Simmons and Embiid.
    — Dan Gelston, ajc, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Chief among them was his former protegee and eventual nemesis, Boris Yeltsin, who became Russia’s first president.
    — Jim Heintz, ajc, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Among the well-wishers paying their respects to the legend and his protegee daughter at today’s event is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Harris is not involved in the federal indictment for Mosby and has not commented on the matter targeting her former protegee.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Readers who have been anticipating the follow-up to the first novel will be happy to know that Aja-Denise, Joe’s daughter and protegee, is back.
    — Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Perry spent some time cooking at his barbecue stand before his protegee, Charlie Bryant, opened a restaurant at 18th and Euclid.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2026
  • With her cunning patriotism, Mei quickly becomes the 72-year-old Chairman’s lover, confidante and protegee.
    — Qian Julie Wang, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
  • Shortly after the overthrow, Nakuina and her protegee Wilhelmina Dowsett began organizing for women’s right to vote on the islands.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Internally, Dantonio’s protegee, Mike Tressel, sits at the helm of the football program on an interim basis.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Priestman is a Herdman protegee, having played and learned under him as a 12-year-old in England, then following him to Canada as an assistant coach with the women’s team.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2024
  • Several clubs and players around the world are still praising Ronaldinho for his football legacy, including his former teammate and protegee Lionel Messi.
    — USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2018
  • His Jon Gribble, the fascistic high-school drama teacher with a delusional a capella protegee (Jason Schwartzman at his most yippy), is the film’s only serviceable creation.
    — Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Perry’s protegee, Charlie Bryant, opened a restaurant at 18th and Euclid, which his younger brother, Arthur Bryant, took over in 1946 and renamed after himself.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The region’s best winemakers and their protegees come here to sell their latest passion projects and side hustles — and the most prolific collectors of Napa Cabernet Sauvignon come for the bragging rights for discovering them before anyone else.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Pooky Lee, a protegee of Clark’s who now runs his own creative and curation agency Poptag in China, considers exhibitions a more immersive, multipurpose means of communication.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The ultimate outcome of that discontent was the removal of former president Dilma Rousseff, a protegee of Lula, and the rise of Bolsonaro, a former fringe lawmaker who campaigned against corruption and violent crime.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • If Season One was a promising first draft, its follow-up was a polished, ready-to-sell manuscript, with a bemused yet affectionate focus on the testy mother-daughter, mentor-protegee relationship between Deborah and Ava.
    — Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • And the wines made from cold-hardy hybrid grapes like La Crescent and Frontenac Gris, from Deirdre Heekin of La Garagista in Vermont, and the cider-wine amalgamations of Heekin’s protegee Krista Scruggs.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018

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