keep company

VERB
  1. be a companion to somebody
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How To Use keep company In A Sentence

  • The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus 
  • An old reel-to-reel tape recorder and dozens of tapes of classical music keep company with a modern stereo system and a collection of CDs.
  • Such as are openly abusive: The scorner, who gives ill-language to every body, takes a pleasure in affronting people and reflecting upon them, is an abomination to men; none that have any sense of honour and virtue will care to keep company with him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Pah! the reminiscences of the horrid black-hole of a place in which we soldiers were confined; of the wretched creatures with whom I was now forced to keep company; of the ploughmen, poachers, pickpockets, who had taken refuge from poverty, or the law (as, in truth, I had done myself), is enough to make me ashamed even now, and it calls the blush into my old cheeks to think I was ever forced to keep such company. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
  • Desert and reward seldom keep company.
  • Then, I caught a few fish on the bottle, and keep company shrimp.
  • Who keep company with the wolf will learn to howl.
  • If you want some quiet R & R — I know, I know, we are shopping, not on a retreat, but bear with me — the lavendar, orchid-strewn, light-flooded, minimalist "arena" where shoes from the likes of Balenciaga (stunning raspberry etiolated "Countess" pumps, £ 325) keep company with Jil Sander's lace-up gray brogue's (£ 410) — perfect for baggy or slouchy pants — offers what you might term a "moment" for retail reflection. Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat
  • The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus 
  • In the garden out front, hot-pink roses keep company with boxwood hedges and a bronze sculpture of Prometheus Unbound. Gabrielle Giffords making steady recovery progress
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