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Protective in sentence

302 examples of Protective in a sentence

And think about it like the protective caps at the ends of your shoelace.
Harmless scarlet kingsnakes have evolved red, yellow, and black patterns resembling those of the venomous eastern coral snake to benefit from the protective warnings these markings convey.
Nuclear weapons are some of the most powerful tools of destruction on Earth, and it may seem naive to put faith in these straightforward protective measures.
Under their protective coverings, these glacierets transform into fully active glaciers that grow each year with additional snowfall.
It's not just what you exclude from your diet, but also what you include that's protective.
The books were created by individuals or teams for uses as wide-ranging as private prayer aids, service books in churches, textbooks, and protective talismans to take into battle.
If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson’s disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why.
It's a tiny hollow particle with a protective outer shell, about the size of a tattoo pigment, and you can fill the inside with practically whatever you want.
Nociception is part of the nervous system’s protective response to harmful or potentially harmful stimuli.
We have to go in with protective suits and breathing gear, and 30 parts per million of H2S will kill you.
Trees can also share information about events like drought or insect attacks through their fungal networks, causing their neighbors to increase production of protective enzymes in anticipation of threats.
And so, it seems to me, upon a lot of reflection, that the way that I have to work now, in order to continue writing, is that I have to create some sort of protective psychological construct, right?
The bad news is that it goes straight through the blood-brain barrier, that protective coating which is there to protect your brain.
We could make cars bigger, which is protective, but make them light.
While crossing the English Channel again, this time in a relay with my mother, not knowing that we were creating history, I saw the protective daughter in me, who just wanted to see her mom fulfill her own dreams.
We don't actually have a standard for what should be the protective gear for the first responders, the people who will actually be there on the front lines.
These walls get their strength from a thick, protective mesh of sugars and amino acids, that are constantly being broken down and rebuilt.
We evolved this very protective, wonderful covering of melanin.
[Question 5: What kind of protective measures should countries put in place?]
We're also using the tools of synthetic biology, tinkering with DNA and other cellular machinery, to serve human purposes like combating COVID-19, and of note, we are working to develop a protective mask that can also serve as a rapid diagnostic test.
It's a live attenuated vaccine, and we're engineering it to express SARS-CoV-2 antigens, which should trigger the production of protective antibodies by the immune system.
The evil wizard’s protective charms ward off every spell you know, so in an act of desperation you throw the only object in reach at him: Pythagoras’s cursed chessboard.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is one of many viruses whose protective outer surface is made of a lipid bilayer.
Today's hyper-anxious youth are not being helped by overly protective parenting.
The heat was so intense, that hoses were used to cool down firefighters fighting extremely close to the fire, and with no protective clothing.
This is a photo of a lemon shark pup, and it shows these animals where they live for the first two to three years of their lives in these protective mangroves.
It's behind a protective wall.
Harry (Judd Nelson), a "reformed" burglar, and Daphne (Gina Gershon), an aspiring actress, are employed as live window mannequins at a department store where one evening they are late in leaving and are locked within, whereupon they witness, from their less than protective glass observation point, an apparent homicide occurring on the street.
The capable cast all give admirably sound and sincere performances, with especially praiseworthy work by Jun Fujimaki as the valiant, protective Kogenta and Tatsuo Endo as mean henchman Gunjuro.
In it, she channels Ruth Gordon (because the play is the thing), is feminine, charming, willful and self-effacing, generous, protective and combative but never pretentious.
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