How To Use Companionable In A Sentence
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It cannot be warrantably inferred from anything that has now been said, that we could mean to represent the believer as a miserable recluse or a moping solitaire - as uncompanionable.
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She did a truly commendable job of being companionable without being intrusive, which is to say she stayed within 2 feet of us the whole time, never stole anything, gave polite kisses, didn't knock over anything and actually curled up behind me to lie down once near the end.
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Continuing upward, we passed an old log barn from which we could hear the companionable gurgles and neck bells of sheep, safely shut away behind a door.
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Of course, if you play e-mail chess, which I regard as a rather sterile and uncompanionable form of the game, much of the record-keeping takes care of itself.
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We sat in what I suppose was called companionable silence.
As Husbands Go
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To see with ‘relentless accuracy,’ according to Moore, is not a matter of detachment and ‘the haggish, uncompanionable drawl of certitude.’
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Although perhaps it is more important for a poet to be "companionable" than to dilly-dally around so much with words and stuff, more important to offer "something born of blood and emotion" (as if Stevens's poems don't contain emotion -- has Wiman read "The Death of a Soldier"?) than to write skillful and provocative poems.
Poetry
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Continuing upward, we passed an old log barn from which we could hear the companionable gurgles and neck bells of sheep, safely shut away behind a door.
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He was teased about it but nevertheless would fetch up most evenings on my cot, smoking his chillum in companionable silence.
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The conversation was evidently serious; his head was bent, and Isabels lifted left hand rested against her cheek; but all the significances of their thoughtful attitude denoted companionableness and a shared understanding.
Chapter 20
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While what I call combative hermits have previously relied on violence to get their way, their new manipulation of uncompanionable arguments has combined with violence to make people weak and dependent.
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He was companionable to the few who came within his favor but never hesitated to speak his mind, however unpleasant the impression left.
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Then, too, Harrison was more of a companionable colleague than a charismatic authority figure who vigorously promoted his ideas and nurtured disciples.
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Never mind love, there are a lot of uncompanionable people around.
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With practice, a sea kayak becomes a wonderfully responsive, stable, and companionable watercraft.
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After that remark, the three friends kept to a companionable silence.
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Her mother and father were seated together on the sofa, sharing the evening's newspaper in companionable silence.
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The two drank their coffees in companionable silence, both significantly more relaxed than when they came in.
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There was another and quieter side in which he showed his rare companionableness and endeared himself to many people.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
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He offered me his hand, and we were out of sight of all that wearisome, drearisome, uncompanionable company with whom, for eight long weeks at least, we had been dragging our rough way.
Erema
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Hey, Gretchen," Tess said, still feeling companionable ," how you doing?
IN A STRANGE CITY
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On leaving Oxford in 1893 he was for some years a clerk in the House of Commons, where his quick interest and companionableness made him widely popular and where a pleasant life seemed before him.
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Others find him less than companionable because of these qualities.
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Second, try to be at least a little companionable while we're stuck here.
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Although perhaps it is more important for a poet to be "companionable" than to dilly-dally around so much with words and stuff, more important to offer "something born of blood and emotion" (as if Stevens's poems don't contain emotion -- has Wiman read "The Death of a Soldier"?) than to write skillful and provocative poems.
Poetry
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Ethics and human research thus have been seen as uncompanionable and opposing forces.
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Their freedom, their energy, their companionableness, was so different from women of the East.
The Education of American Girls
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They walked along in companionable silence for a while when suddenly the Doctor blurted out, “You want a ring, Rose?”
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She has had a benevolent look on her face just lately, an interested, unresistant expression, and a kind of openness of feature that is pleasant and companionable.
No More Words
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This battle-scared male veteran was missing his right eye and many teeth, had several fresh wounds which had to be treated, and yet was very compliant and companionable.
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Amy didn't so much laugh as cough, and Father Marino, companionable, did too.
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While the plants originated in the tropics, their companionableness seems to have been a North American discovery.
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And some of those things make the Alien seem downright companionable.
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They spoke little, each of them thinking his own thoughts, but it was a companionable silence, punctuated by the sputter and crackle of the fire.
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Hey, Gretchen," Tess said, still feeling companionable ," how you doing?
IN A STRANGE CITY
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Enjoyable company at first due to her smart manner, Holmes' Katie becomes progressively uncompanionable as things deteriorate, personally and dramatically.
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Annoyingly, they have for the most part turned out to be pleasant, companionable, warm, decent folk.
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It was that nice companionable silence again, and I enjoyed it.
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The conversation was evidently serious; his head was bent, and Isabel's lifted left hand rested against her cheek; but all the significances of their thoughtful attitude denoted companionableness and a shared understanding.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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Anyone who feels like meeting me there -- just to work in companionable silence with tasty snacks, not to chat -- come on by.
November 21st, 2003
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Helen patted Mrs Bright's hand and gave her a companionable smile.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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There was novelty in the scheme; and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.
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What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been!
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Hip hip hussar for decent companionable style I say, that means it's fine for us lesser mortals, put it on your Christmas list, at least it won't just sit unread on the shelf for the next ten years.
The Whisperers
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The weary reader longs for the mercy of a qualification, a doubt, a hesitation; there is little sense, in her uncompanionable prose, of exploration occurring before our eyes, of tentative motions of thought reflected in a complex syntax.
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Gut Symmetries is flawed and uncompanionable, but there is something Milan Kundera-esque about it too.
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No one can deny that the tomtit is a companionable little fellow.
Our Bird Comrades
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They walked in companionable silence to the target range, Mark pleased to have his mother to himself.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Helen patted Mrs Bright's hand and gave her a companionable smile.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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But the site of them, unquarreling, almost companionable, prompted me to resume it.
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And as I took courage, I made friends among the women students, finding many of them unprejudiced and companionable.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
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The water lapped a short distance away from their feet, filling the companionable silence as their eyes perused the darkness.
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a companionable pet
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Literature is filled with companionable, often jesting and jawboning mates, an endless procession of Nicks and Noras and Mr. and Mrs. Bennetts.
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Nothing has ruined more trips than choosing uncompanionable companions to travel the wilderness with.
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They walked in companionable silence to the target range, Mark pleased to have his mother to himself.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
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Thoreau was wedded to Nature not so much for her beauty as for delight in her high companionableness.
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And it’s true: Sitting with others, even in companionable silence, at our own humble, artisanal feast of creation is healing me.
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He loves me because he believes I am beautiful, and we are generally companionable.
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Robyn waited for him to break the spell of this wonderful, strangely companionable silence.
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For a few minutes they lay side by side in companionable silence staring up at the shadows on the ceiling.
FALLEN WOMEN
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He has a friend, the negro Jim, with the strength of a man, the companionableness of a boy, and the fidelity of a dog.
Chapter 7. Mark Twain
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She realized she had lost the companionable Nick and was once again confronted with the strange, quiet, and somewhat frightening, angry Nick.
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Jim finds him to be ‘a most companionable fellow’.
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She was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member of the team, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.
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The only way out was via narrow and uncompanionable ‘companion-ladders.’
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There is something intensely companionable about playing with three others in a confined space; a companionableness which extends to giving opponents a fair sight of the ball without intervention of a referee.
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They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions.
The Uses of Enchantment
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She herself meant eventually to marry, because one couldn't forever hang on to rich people; but she was going to wait till she found some one who combined the maximum of wealth with at least a minimum of companionableness.
The Glimpses of the Moon
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Of the entire team, Elvira was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.
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We made the driver stop and walked for a companionable half-hour with two herdsmen, striding along at the head of their great mass of long horned cattle.
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Jason is a perfect friend who binds me to himself with the beauty of his heart, companionableness, his sense of humor and friendship in a foreign country where I do not know the culture and people at all.
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Again, the same feeling of happy companionable comfort, although it probably wouldn't have been at all apparent to anyone else given that we spent a fair bit of the time disagreeing violently and interspersing this with hacking coughs.
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And fire proves to be, even in Pyne's learned treatment, as intangible and uncompanionable as a distant, cold god.
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He is always a companionable narrator, but he also knows when to let his subjects speak for themselves.
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For a few minutes they lay side by side in companionable silence staring up at the shadows on the ceiling.
FALLEN WOMEN
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They walked to the studio together in a companionable silence.
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He preferred living in jail to living with his first wife, who was his senior, and definitely uncompanionable.
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The two evolved from antagonistic opponents to companionable partners, and would play practice rounds all day.
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For what is lost personally now and then, far more of greater mutual value is obtained; and it is largely by a habit of companionableness that the happiness of the home can be made so satisfying that there can arise no question of its permanence.
The Etiquette of To-day
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The whole seemingly uncompanionable half-dozen, stabled together, may pass the long wet hours when the door is shut in livelier communication than is held in the servants’ hall or at the Dedlock Arms.
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There remained the Margerisons; Peter, with his friendly smile and gentle companionableness; Hilary, worried and weary and hardly noticing her unobtrusive presence; Silvio, Caterina, and Illuminato sucking gingerbread and tumbling off the rack, and Peggy, on whose broad shoulder Rhoda suddenly laid her head and wept, all through the Mont
The Lee Shore
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They are sharing, in a companionable silence somehow caught on camera, a moment of profound reflection and thought.
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I wasn't far down my first beer when I decided he was probably the most companionable man I'd ever met.
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They continued again in silence again, but it was a comfortable, companionable silence.
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They ate together in companionable silence until it was almost time to go.
The Good Unicorn « A Fly in Amber
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She is an informative, analytically rigorous, yet always companionable and deeply humane guide through the moral thicket that is early 21st century assisted reproduction.
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Meaning, please seek a rescue group if you want a particular breed, look in your local shelter for a surprise find, or, better yet, get over the "purebred" fetish and find out how stable, loyal and companionable the all-American mutt can be.
Ingrid Newkirk: The Pope, PETA and Overpopulation
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The slave-traders in the Congo look upon their employment as did the contrabandist in the golden days of smuggling; the “free sailor” whom Marryatt depicts, a law-breaker, yet not less a very pleasant, companionable fellow.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Peter's sweet-tempered companionableness had been oddly obscured this evening.
The Lee Shore
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The companionable warmth had already developed to something far deeper.
FINAL RESORT
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Brow furrowing, Shanza looked to the ground as they spent the rest of their walk pacing down the hallway in burdened but companionable silence.
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William Howitt was always ready to lend an attentive and unbiassed ear to the newest theory, or even the newest fad, while Mary possessed in the fullest degree the gift of companionableness, and her inexhaustible sympathy drew from others an instant confidence.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
