How to Use unchaperoned in a Sentence

unchaperoned

adjective
  • Being seen on an unchaperoned date, even at a restaurant or other public place, could be cause for social ruin.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 July 2018
  • Many parents were waiting on the steps outside the arena to pick up their young concert goers, some of them at their first-ever concert unchaperoned, when the bomb went off.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2017
  • Sale, who was the former editor of the student newspaper, was enraged by a proposal to ban unchaperoned coeds from off-campus parties.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021
  • These unchaperoned women, some people worried, could be pedaling away to engage in prostitution or lesbianism. Cycling trousers, along with women on bikes, were also a target of ridicule.
    — Christine Ro, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The middle-grade novel takes place in Crown Heights and follows a group of fifth and sixth grade students brought together weekly by their teacher for an informal, unchaperoned support group.
    — ConcepciÓn De LeÓn, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • For those looking to skip town this weekend for some sun and fun (possibly unchaperoned 🫢), here’s an AJC travel guide with everything Georgians should know before heading out on a spring break trip.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The government shutdown in November 1995 cleared the White House of everyone except senior leaders and lowly interns, and that left Clinton unchaperoned.
    — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • The board’s decision that a film merited a rating of R, or restricted, might lure more adults but would immediately eliminate the pool of unchaperoned filmgoers under the age of 17; an X rating would bar anyone under 17 altogether.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • The board’s decision that a film merited a rating of R, or restricted, might lure more adults, but would immediately eliminate the pool of unchaperoned moviegoers under 17; an X rating would bar anyone under 17 altogether.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 19 May 2021

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