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This is not to dispute the effectiveness of social distancing and personal protective equipment when used correctly.

To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.

Bucca must have placed his turnout coat protectively around several civilians, for it was later found still wrapped around them.

A man in a similar suit remained protectively at his side as he took the 30 steps to a hospital entrance.

For all his faults, he is personally disciplined; self-protectively aloof rather than casually detached.

He protectively brought it back to his room, where he fed it banana and gently wrapped it in a warm cloth.

Protectively, man must go the whole distance and pretend that there is not one single thing which he can do for baby.

They walked along the corridor to the revolving doors, his hand tucked protectively under her arm.

When he passed her open door, or in front of her window, he hunched his shoulder protectively and averted his eyes.

Females in confinement were attentive to young, and, soon after parturition, licked them clean and huddled over them protectively.

Then he dropped down beside the girl, and put one arm over her protectively, an instinctive movement.