Preposition: of

• health: Meaningful work, whether paid or unpaid, is protective of mental health and fosters a sense of self worth and belonging.

Preposition: against

• cancer: Laboratory, animal, and epidemiologic evidence strongly suggest that Vitamin D may be protective against some cancers.

Modifies a noun

• clothing: Some 75 percent of protective clothing sold in the UK is imported.

• coating: Now, by teaming up with AEA to add a protective coating, the thermal resistance of these parts can be enhanced still further.

• glove: Just touching a cold milk bottle without using protective gloves can cause the fingers to go numb.

• covering: Cables can also be made up with varying types of protective covering including steel wire armor for direct burial.

• headgear: A rider whilst racing or training shall wear properly affixed protective headgear which must be of a hard/soft shell construction.

• equipment: There was no protective equipment, not even a face mask.

Modifying Another Word

• fiercely: Well known for being good mothers and can be fiercely protective with calves at foot, particularly toward dogs.

• highly: Researchers have developed a plant-based vaccine against bacterial Shiga toxin, and show that it is highly protective in mice.

• very: HE You're very protective toward it, aren't you?

• over: It is all too easy for families to be over protective.

• extremely: Manfred is quite rightly extremely protective of his music.

• so: Anyway why should the PPA be so protective over the data that they consider a request must be dealt with by them?

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I remember feeling fiercly protective of him which is only normal.

• become: There is no doubt the commercial judges have become far more protective of the claimant, insured or reinsured.

• get: One that, much to Mike's distress, Sully seems to like having around and is even getting protective over.

• remain: Despite our open and co-operative relationships with many other countries in the world, we remain jealously protective of our position and affluence.

• consider: This is the sign of coiled rope surrounding all the cartouches of the Pharaohs and is considered powerfully protective.