Example sentences for: protégé

How can you use “protégé” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now, the young man has found a substitute dad in Cameron (Stacy Keach), a glowering fount of white supremacist hate literature who uses his protégé to enlist and incite other youths.

  • It is strange, however, that when Greider himself turned his attention from money politics to the global economy, he ended up relying for technical advice mainly on--you guessed it--Milliken's protégé Prestowitz.

  • In Israel itself, the daily Ha'aretz led Monday with a report that former Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, who appointed Benjamin Netanyahu as his top aide at the Israeli Embassy in Washington in 1982, has decided to stand against his former protégé for the leadership of the Likud Party and as its candidate for prime minister in the May elections.

  • Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.

  • Nothing Lefty says or does comes out right--especially his adoption of a protégé, a young jewel thief called "Donnie Brasco" (Johnny Depp) who turns out, of course, to be an undercover FBI agent.


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