longtime companion

Example Sentences

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But when it comes to extended relationships we’ve got: lover, domestic partner, significant other, longtime companion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

Neal attributed Barker’s longevity to his longtime companion Nancy Burnet, crediting her as “the reason he was able to live for so long.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023

In 2007 Mr. Bennett married a third time, to his longtime companion, Susan Crow, a teacher four decades his junior whom he had met in the late 1980s.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Four Paws said Madhubala was mourning the loss of her longtime companion.

From Reuters • Apr. 23, 2023

Her real name was Mary Ann Evans, and she had come with her longtime companion, George Lewes, who wrote about natural history and was an advocate of Darwinism.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman