companion

Example Sentences

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My mom spends a lot of time with us helping with the kids, cooking and being my husband’s favorite movie-watching companion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Instead, it formed in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's largest companion galaxy, and later migrated into our galaxy billions of years ago.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

“Mountain lion kittens tend to thrive with a companion, a strategy the Zoo has successfully used with other rescues,” the zoo said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

But that same density can tip the cake toward heaviness — toward something that eats more like dessert than companion.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya