How to Use companionable in a Sentence

companionable

adjective

• One of the toughest parts of the lockdown for me has been the lack of companionable events to look forward to.
  — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
• The two have been companionable, even as Warren steadily gains on Sanders in the polls.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• The finest of these movies offer up their own companionable glow.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
• Its rich blues and luscious pops of berry red led Ms. Murphy to choose pieces with companionable hues and forms.
  — Elizabeth Quinn Brown, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• In the slanting sunlight, unhurried and companionable, the two picked their way through the undergrowth, a vision of the rural idyll.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2021
• But each narrator is a companionable guide, and each book has juicy tidbits to offer.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• Expect the unexpected with maverick Uranus in the mix on the 23rd, and enjoy some companionable private time near the 27th.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 July 2023
• Now, Toby is designated by his family to move in with Hugo and keep a companionable eye on him.
  — Maureen Corrigan, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• The three books are united by the way in which the unnamed narrator — her voice the same, companionable tone in all three — notices the world, alert to human pain, to people undone by life, unmoored by death, lost.
  — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• And Pitt, at 55, is so companionable, so grounded and resolute, that spending two hours with him is like leaning comfortably against a cool slab of granite.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2019
• From then on, their locker room atmosphere became more than just companionable.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• Let his words spill over into the surrounding, companionable dark, and let whatever can’t be absorbed by her mind be taken in through her skin, her fingernails, her hair—this, too, is a kind of money, wealth.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Hudson’s companionable presence, and some of his delightful prose, enrich this book.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• And more: a scrawny-armed, hapless-yet-optimistic monster; a pair of companionable roommates whose opposite moods adhere to old vaudeville routines; and a sweetly naive canary who stands eight feet tall and keeps a nest in the alley.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• But this wise and sympathetic book’s lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories.
  — Mark Epstein, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• Conversation drifts between them from time to time, but the montage is mostly of a companionable, understanding quiet.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
• There was a sundeck and two hot tubs, a library full of South Sea literature, a cozy bar with live music, a spa for soothing massages, a gym to work off those long lunches, and a manifest of companionable and well-traveled fellow passengers.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
• Popular culture has tamed them into cuteness, turning them into kitschy collectibles on the shelves of souvenir stores, ornaments on Christmas trees or, thanks to the Harry Potter books, companionable pets.
  — Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
• Science has spoken: Getting a border collie to stop herding city pigeons or a Doberman pinscher to be more companionable or a springer spaniel to stop flushing prey is going to be a heavy lift for even an expert dog whisperer.
  — Sharon Begley, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2019
• Through vignettes and journal entries, Lightman offers observations in a tone that is edifying and companionable – a bonus for those of us who are not theoretical physicists like the author.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2021
• Hadden-Paton plays Higgins just as Shaw wrote him: vital and appetizing, and attached mainly to his mother—who is fondly wary of him—and his companionable comrade in phonetics, Pickering.
  — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
• And companionship doesn’t even have to include conversation to be companionable.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Working through the senses gives physical connectedness and belonging to people starved of social contact and companionable touch.
  — Fay Bound Alberti, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2019
• An uplifting and companionable fellow traveler for us all.
  — T Magazine, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2016
• Both terribly sad and unexpectedly companionable, this quiet book does just that.
  — Moira MacDonald, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• Surrounding yourself with others who aren’t making companionable and supportive choices could definitely harm your shot at success.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• And some inclusions of canine remains in human burials suggest a symbolic rather than companionable relationship, with many graves including single elements such as jaw bones.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• Dogs are highly companionable, obedient, and playful animals.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
• Advertisement Their improbably companionable relationship comes a time when partisan differences run marrow-deep and many Democrats and Republicans view their parties not as vessels of collected interests but warring tribes locked in mortal conflict.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024