constant companion

collocation in English

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constant
adjective
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/ˈkɒn.stənt/us
/ˈkɑːn.stənt/
happening a lot or all ...
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companion
noun[C]
uk
/kəmˈpæn.jən/us
/kəmˈpæn.jən/
a person you spend a lot of time with often because you are friends or because you are ...
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(Definition ofconstantandcompanionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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During the 1950s, aconstantcompanionduring the leisure time spent at home was the radio.
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Val was hisconstantcompanionand his unfailing source of support.
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Fear of such happenings, not only perhaps to ourselves, but to our children and to our elderly relatives, is aconstantcompanionand is real.
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They never suffered the pre-race nerves that have been myconstantcompanionduring the past few days.
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The fear of them happening to ourselves, to our young children and to our elderly relatives is aconstantcompanion.
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It is herconstantcompanion, she has never been able to make it go away, and she feels that only death could banish it.
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They bond with humans, but often select a particular member of the family to be theirconstantcompanion.
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He could be considered her best friend, as he is loyal (like a dog) and herconstantcompanion.
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Despite his being a wine merchant, he chooses whisky as hisconstantcompanion.
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A dogleg right, the ocean is aconstantcompanionalong the entire right side of the hole.
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Fear of death seems to be herconstantcompanion; she continuously sees death as a danger and a menace.
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He was his father's intimate andconstantcompanionand inherited from him his early literary enthusiasm.
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Lad immediately befriends the girl and becomes herconstantcompanion.
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From an early age, her daughter was aconstantcompanionand assisted at births.
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As a child she bonds with her aunt, who becomes her nursemaid andconstantcompanion.
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Love does not slow to appear and be theirconstantcompanionin the midst of the most breathtaking escape.
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She was hisconstantcompanionthrough the disease that slowly and cruelly destroyed him.
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In the earlier years of this period he was the "aide-de-camp" andconstantcompanionof the king.
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Ektara, a traditional single string instrument has been hisconstantcompanion.
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Midir does not know that the butterfly is tan, but it becomes hisconstantcompanion, and he has no interest in women.
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