COMPANION in a Sentence

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It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPANION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
companion
 n.  a person you spend a lot of time with, often because of friends or travelling together; partner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "He is sure to be at the laboratory," returned my companion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
3  My companion smiled an enigmatical smile.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
4  Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
5  During the first week or so we had no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
6  On another occasion an old white-haired gentleman had an interview with my companion; and on another a railway porter in his velveteen uniform.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
7  Then I picked up a magazine from the table and attempted to while away the time with it, while my companion munched silently at his toast.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
8  I CONFESS that I was considerably startled by this fresh proof of the practical nature of my companion's theories.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
9  My companion was in the best of spirits, and prattled away about Cremona fiddles, and the difference between a Stradivarius and an Amati.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
10  At the door of the house we were met by a tall, white-faced, flaxen-haired man, with a notebook in his hand, who rushed forward and wrung my companion's hand with effusion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
11  Lestrade, lean and ferret-like as ever, was standing by the doorway, and greeted my companion and myself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
12  Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manoeuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
13  My companion smiled approvingly.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
14  My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
15  "You stopped, and then walked back to the garden gate," my companion interrupted.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  He was my only Chinese companion during my stay in American.
2  The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
3  The boy struck at his companion who had jeered at him.
4  Fear was the hostages' constant companion.
5  A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
6  Life is a journey, one that is much better traveled with a companion by our side.
7  The dog has been her constant companion these past ten years.
8  The little girl will be a companion for my small daughter.
9  With their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion.
10  Although Jack was smug and puffed up with conceit, he was an entertaining companion, always expressing himself in witty turns of phrase.
11  For a fortnight he and his companion Dimitri Kieffer pulled their equipment over the eighty kilometre stretch of frozen water with the sounds of ice breaking just a few miles behind them.
12  While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
13  The seeds of friendship were sown early, and they remained lifelong companions.
14  Beauty and folly are often companions.
15  When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her companions were indignant that they'd been duped by a charlatan.