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Protective in sentence

302 examples of Protective in a sentence

As you can see, there's no protective equipment, no protective clothing.
Dr. Elena Bodnar invented a brassiere that in an emergency can be quickly separated into a pair of protective face masks.
They create a kind of protective shield which prevents them from coming in contact with the disease, so that these people are protected.
And this might be associated with some of the differences in health associated with Cesarean birth, such as more asthma, more allergies, even more obesity, all of which have been linked to microbes now, and when you think about it, until recently, every surviving mammal had been delivered by the birth canal, and so the lack of those protective microbes that we've co-evolved with might be really important for a lot of these different conditions that we now know involve the microbiome.
And what's more, we're starting to do clinical trials with more children to figure out whether this has a protective effect generally.
He sealed the transcripts and placed them under a protective order in an attempt to prevent someone like me from doing something like this.
You know, this big protective fence around the village, and they sort of looked at me and go, "Yeah, chief die."
So my first impulse in the face of all of this attention was to become very protective of my own relationship.
Lucius watches his brother stand in his new toga before the household shrine with its protective deities, as he places his bulla, a protective amulet, in the shrine with a prayer of thanks.
And living in the midst of good, warm relationships is protective.
It turns out that being in a securely attached relationship to another person in your 80s is protective, that the people who are in relationships where they really feel they can count on the other person in times of need, those people's memories stay sharper longer.
It's withering and it's dying because we've invested so much in our protective arm.
Further refinements would include a colored ring, called the iris, that controls the amount of light entering the eye, a tough white outer layer, known as the sclera, to maintain its structure, and tear glands that secrete a protective film.
And here we find a hot spring, mixing with cold stream water underneath her protective motherly jaws and thus bringing their legends to life.
That protective process is known as menstruation, leading to the period.
Its reef forms a protective outer barrier and the inner lagoon is a nursery ground for Galapagos sharks.
The DNA in our cells is packaged within chromosomes, each of which has two protective regions at the extremities called telomeres.
While each human tooth is coated in a hardy, protective layer of enamel, it's no match for acid.
If you want a glimpse of Marie Curie's manuscripts, you'll have to sign a waiver and put on protective gear to shield yourself from radiation contamination.
Inside its protective membranes and the skull's hard casing, this delicate organ is usually well-shielded.
Without those protective factors in his life, Christopher would be more likely to commit further, more serious crime.
As soon as the leukocytes detect them, it takes only minutes for the body’s protective immune response to kick in.
Because siRNA is strongly negatively charged, we can protect it with a nice, protective layer of positively charged polymer.
The two oppositely charged molecules stick together through charge attraction, and that provides us with a protective layer that prevents the siRNA from degrading in the bloodstream.
The probe will need a special protective coating for each of the extreme environments it passes through.
There's very little room in the cranial vault, only a few millimeters, and it's filled entirely with cerebral spinal fluid, which acts as a protective layer.
But due to confirmation bias, we never consider the rival theories, because we're so protective of our own pet theory.
Environments or ecologies, or communities where there's high risk of infectious disease, breast milk can be incredibly protective.
The protective gear is necessary because these are toxic chemicals that kill people as well as bugs.
And people thought the sugar coating on our cells was like a protective coating that somehow made our cells stronger or tougher.
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