companionate

Example Sentences

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In her view, the dolls aren’t child substitutes so much as companionate props in something like a large-scale roleplaying game.

From The Guardian

Next comes the second stage, companionate love, in which love settles in for the long haul.

From Scientific American

In the middle is our need for love and belonging, which connects to the second era of marriage: the companionate era.

From Salon

Rioux tries to make everything O.K. by saying that, if Jo married, at least she didn’t make a would-be romantic match, the kind that women have been historically bamboozled by, but a “companionate union.”

From The New Yorker

The dancers’ manner is very companionate, a mode that, as much as the hellfire, is a Mark Morris trademark.

From The New Yorker