overprotective

How To Use overprotective In A Sentence

• Funny how having daughters turns you into an old-fashioned, overprotective prude.
• Today, I found out that my overprotective parents hired a private investigator a month ago, who since then has been watching my perfectly normal boyfriend, in case he "tries to rape or kill" me.
• His parents were so overprotective of him, especially his father.
• Besides, this thinking goes, families tend to be overprotective, risk averse and are to be mistrusted.
• It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother.
• I am not an overprotective fan.
• Overprotective parents may bombard their young children with messages that reinforce their lack of mastery.
• Nemo is a little fish kid whose overprotective dad, Marlin, is perfectly voiced by Albert Brooks, that prince of good-natured anxiety.
• She was a smart girl who grew up with an overprotective father and was quickly isolated from her peers.
• A blush covered her cheeks, causing Jacob to go into overprotective father mode.