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单词 companionable
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Examples from literature
  • Baker was companionable, jolly, but at the same time was shrewd, cold, calculating and unscrupulous in business.
  • He turned the gas on very brightly, so as to soothe his fears with companionable light.
  • Her companionable presence soothed him and even made him happy.
  • It seemed strange that the father and daughter were so companionable, for superficially they were entirely unlike.
  • They were pleasantly tired and lingered over their tea in a companionable silence.

Examplesofcompanionable

companionable
Those who have seemed loyal andcompanionablemay suddenly unbind a mental arsenal whose existence was unsuspected.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In this light the cottage asks to be seen alongside the rise of the novel and ideas ofcompanionablemarriage.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Choro emerged in the 1880s characteristically in small cafés, where thecompanionablesharing of food and drink was as integral to the experience and atmosphere as the music itself.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Some said that when morecompanionableconditions were created, wives went into pubs, which increased drinking without necessarily increasing the rate of alcoholism.
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That may be so, but it does not follow that ants are ascompanionable—even a whole colony of them—as a single dog.
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Although the marriage may have been happy andcompanionable, the executors will now probably have to go to the court even in the case of perfectly justifiable wills.
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Is it simply done to make women morecompanionablewith men or is to give them a real understanding and interests of their own in the realms of human thought?
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Dogs are verycompanionableand are intelligent.
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He had a vein of quiet humour that made him a verycompanionableman.
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Already are the railroads displacing thecompanionablecheer of crackling walnut with the dogged self-complacency and sullen virtue of anthracite.
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And she said, because he s socompanionable.
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Its characteristic willing attitude and manageable size make it the perfect mix of a competitive andcompanionablemount.
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Sometimes recorded as an omen of death, sometimes a morecompanionableanimal, it is classified as a cryptid, and there are varying accounts of the animal's appearance.
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