keeping company

Example Sentences

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His rate of success was keeping company with legends.

From BBC • May 13, 2024

Now, the massive vessel’s size — it’s more than 400 feet long — has played a role in preventing it from keeping company with other private yachts in Port Everglades, Fla., where it is anchored.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

At 101.3% year-on-year in July, Zimbabwe has one of the highest inflation rates in the world, keeping company with the likes of Venezuela, Lebanon and Syria.

From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2023

Nice things like this — a player in Washington keeping company among the best in the league — don’t happen every year for Wizards fans.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

“I was nineteen then,” recalled Johnny, “and keeping company with your best friend, Hildy O’Dair.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith