accompaniment

Example Sentences

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A mound of steaming white rice and a shallow bowl of tomato sauce serve as accompaniments.

From Seattle Times

A misshapen, pocked rectangle of line-caught ling cod carried a wafting fishy scent, its surface over-salted and cooked hard, the interior flesh chewing into little fibers, the plating indifferent, the accompaniments misguided.

From Seattle Times

Sliced thinly and served with these accompaniments, this steak makes a meal that can’t be outflanked!

From Seattle Times

In “Memory Song,” for instance, Wolfe hauntingly colorized with silvery percussive accompaniment, marvelously melodic clarinet and cello lines and interruptions of chirping bird song, Monk’s singing of forgetting and football.

From Los Angeles Times

And then the long decline, to the accompaniment of prescription drugs, binge eating and bad advice — even as his acolytes raise him to a state of godhead, the Sun King of rock ’n’ roll.

From Los Angeles Times