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Example sentences for "companionable"

Lexicographically close words:
compaignie; companie; companied; companies; companion; companionably; companioned; companionless; companions; companionship
  1. While my associates were screwing up the Dean, I was screwing up the Master; it was one of my earliest attempts to be companionable with my fellow-men.

  2. Study grew delightful to her; she made rapid progress in her music, and became so gentle and courteous to the servants, so affectionate and companionable with her father, that she was like a sunbeam in the house.

  3. The companionable garden corner for afternoon tea and beer became a nook of liveliness.

  4. The cathedral acquaintances took one side of a table under the branches, and the companionable Furstenheimer with Gard faced them.

  5. The government agent was an old friend of mine, a California forty-niner, and a most companionable fellow.

  6. He was a very well read and companionable man, and exceedingly bright by nature, and at once became very popular with the people.

  7. He will generally take the water when necessary, and, retaining the character of the breed, is more companionable and attached.

  8. He yipped softly, in a companionable sort of way.

  9. And as Breault turned toward him, his thin face a-grin, and continued to invite him in a most companionable way, he forgot his concealment entirely and stood up straight, ready either to fight or fly.

  10. So have I found it through life--always provided that the attractive and companionable qualities were otherwise in abundance.

  11. The man in the velour hat seemed to find something companionable in this movement, for he slowly drew nearer.

  12. And the thought of that theater, with its companionable crush of humanity, began to appeal to my rain-swept spirit.

  13. If only he had fallen in love with someone who might possibly make him happy, someone who was companionable and ambitious!

  14. I pitched him--how much more truly companionable is a book than its author!

  15. Still, it was ever an excuse for a delightful ramble alongside the companionable river, for in the plashing and gurgling of its waters it almost seemed a living thing.

  16. Yet nobody knew how much the poor wakeful soul would miss the only one of her meagre possessions that seemed alive and companionable in lonely hours.

  17. To-day their conversation ran along pleasantly; they were companionable little brothers, and only unmanageable when separated.

  18. Illustration: Old Salts Are More Picturesque and Companionable Spinning Yarns about the Stove in a Shoemaker's Shop than when One Is Obliged to Live, Eat and Sleep with Them] We knew his habits well.

  19. Old salts are more picturesque and companionable spinning yarns about the stove in a shoemaker's shop than they are when one is obliged to live, eat and sleep with them for four months in the crowded forecastle of a fishing schooner.

  20. She was just as sweet and companionable an assistant to her aunt as ever; but from month to month Mrs. Caxton saw that a shadow lay deep upon her heart.

  21. Eleanor lived very much out of doors, and was likened by her aunt to a rural Flora or Proserpine that summer; though when in the house she was just the most sonsy, sensible, companionable little earthly maiden that could be fancied.

  22. The conqueror had become simply a companionable man.

  23. He went better with the time of year, and there was something awfully companionable about his sudden laugh.

  24. On the contrary, the companionable aroma of tobacco smoke hung in the air mixed with the sweet faint scent of flowers.

  25. That they are not so companionable but that the haze of distance improves the view.

  26. To-day the art was ravishingly companionable with her sweet-lighted face: too sweet, too vividly meaningful for pretty, if not of the strict severity for beautiful.

  27. But here they are like old neighbours for whom we never look in vain, intimate though eternal, friendly and companionable though far off.

  28. It was one of the most companionable of men, William Morris, who said: That God has made each one of us as lone As He Himself sits.

  29. Perhaps this wild flower hunt proved but a small part of her pleasure, for as she strolled along the doctor proved most companionable as he coached her in hike knowledge.

  30. I hope you will like her, dear, for she seems a pleasant, well-bred girl and surely will prove companionable to you.

  31. The good woman was all the more companionable for the reason that she never presumed on a coarse familiarity or indulged in a prying interest.

  32. Yes, come," cried Belle, who had resumed at once her old companionable and mirthful relations with Roger.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "companionable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affable; amiable; civil; communicative; companion; companionable; compatible; congenial; convivial; courteous; friendly; genial; gregarious; hospitable; neighbourly; pleasant; sociable; social; urbane