comfortable surroundings

collocation in English

meaningsofcomfortableandsurroundings

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comfortable
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/us
/ˈkʌm.fɚ.t̬ə.bəl/
Comfortable furniture and clothes provide a pleasant feeling and do not give you any ...
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surroundings
noun[plural]
uk
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/us
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/
the place where someone or something is and the things that are ...
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(Definition ofcomfortableandsurroundingsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The home was opened about five years ago and thirty-six people are housed there in warm,comfortablesurroundingswith everything catered for.
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Merchandise of every conceivable description can be purchased within attractive andcomfortablesurroundings.
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In my experience there are nocomfortablesurroundingsin court buildings.
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We may be relatively wealthy, relatively well-off and live in relativelycomfortablesurroundings, but it worries some of our constituents.
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Everyone likescomfortablesurroundingsin which to work but that is not the point here.
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The hospital provides high-quality clinical care incomfortablesurroundings.
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We are not talking about working in pleasant,comfortablesurroundingssuch as those in which we work.
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There are one or two motorway restaurants where reasonable food can be obtained at highish, but not exorbitant, prices, in clean andcomfortablesurroundings.
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If you are going on merit, why only encourage people of sixty-five to live in thesecomfortablesurroundings?
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It is easy for us incomfortablesurroundingsto forget that a woman widowed in these circumstances loses the mainstay of her life.
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A teacher who lacks the gift cannot efficiently teach even in the mostcomfortablesurroundingsor with only one child to deal with at a time.
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Residential homes offer skilful care incomfortablesurroundings.
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He has to depend upon the amount of work he can do for his wages, and he cannot work his best ifcomfortablesurroundingsare mot there for him.
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I worry that children of three, four or five would not understand if one asked them whether they wished to appear in open court or incomfortablesurroundings.
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When knights were taken as prisoners of war, they were customarily held for ransom in somewhatcomfortablesurroundings.
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All offer similar facilities such as food, drink,comfortablesurroundings, venue hire and in many cases accommodation.
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There are three public houses in the village offeringcomfortablesurroundingsin which to while away the day and night.
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Periodic improvements and extensions accomplished by prudent management resulted in thecomfortablesurroundingsenjoyed today.
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