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How to use companionship in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Companionship means the state of having or being a companion. Example: “The dog provided comfort and companionship.”

Examples of companionship by meaning

nounThe state of having or being a companion.

  • The dog provided comfort and companionship.
  • He valued the companionship of his old friends.

nounAn association, a fellowship.

  • a companionship of printers

More sentences with companionship

  • Unlike the eros and ludus love styles, storge lovers emphasize companionship and compatibility over physical attraction.2012, Claire Kimberly, Jason D. Hans, “Love Styles and Their Role in Relationships”, in Michele E. Paludi, editor, The Psychology of Love…. From the entry storge
  • A gorgeous story about companionship between a small crocodiley creature and a dad crocodiley creature.2003, Kaz Cooke, “[Dads] More Info”, in Kidwrangling: The Real Guide to Caring for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers, Camberwell, Vic.…. From the entry crocodiley
  • He roamed the local hills by himself, but he was not without companionship when he wanted it.1995, Peter Rand, China Hands, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269. From the entry Yung-an
  • They may suggest the wearers’ tastes in companionships, such as I’m With Stupid, or, Pobody's Nerfect.1979, 1979 LaGrange High School Yearbook, LaGrange, Georgia, United States: LaGrange High School, page 168. From the entry pobody's nerfect
  • Gays, unlike heterosexuals, are rarely provided with homosexual companionship at home or at work.1977 April 30, Steven Blevins, “Sexism in the Bars, Baths, and Bushes”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry overdependence
  • To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 208. From the entry cenobite
  • Tentatively they find warmth and companionship in each other.2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club. From the entry enmesh
  • Janet feels that she needs the companionship of an animal, whereas Ethel Shutta has a “George Olsen, Junior,” to play with.1933 April 30, “These Ziegfeld Blondes Were So Alike that Wally Won, Starred and Lost Them Both: First Ethel Walked Out With the Dashing…. From the entry rematchmaker
  • A rush from my memory of many clumsy kindlinesses, a realisation of the loss of his companionship came to me.1924, H. G. Wells, The Dream, Part One, Chapter 4, §1. From the entry kindliness
  • During that time he had been living with his youthful memory of her; but she had doubtless had other and more tangible companionship.1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 34, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry relic
  • As the country’s population gets older and more people choose not to have children or to live alone, pets are an increasingly popular option for companionship at home.2021 July 18, Iris Ouyang, “China Continent Insurance expands animal coverage amid booming pet economy expected to reach US$73 billion by…. From the entry Xiling
  • Blow’s column refers to nonreligious thought as “shtick,” and implies that atheists fail to properly celebrate human exceptionalism, wondrousness, compassion, love, companionship and perhaps even singing and picnicking.2009 May 10, “A Life With Religion, and Without”, in New York Times. From the entry wondrousness
  • Her loneliness and her rejection by other children are traced through the seasons until winter, when she builds a snowchild, which invites the companionship of a new friend.1995, The Horn Book Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Books, volume 6, Horn Book, page 36, column 2. From the entry snowchild
  • The karaoke has been well received by those who frequent the oriental cabaret scene and adopt its particular social behaviors such as conversation, companionship, being seen, and showing off.1993 March, Michael J. Wagner with John S. Brick, “Using Karaoke in the Classroom”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 79, number 7…. From the entry karaoke
  • A middle-aged Jewish male searching for female companionship can place a personal ad in an Indianapolis magazine and identify himself as searching for a woman “committed to tikkun olam”.1989, Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, Nahum M. Sarna, From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism […] , Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry tikkun olam
  • But contemporality of events is equivalent to companionship: two events which occur in the same time period without influencing or controlling one another can metaphorically be called temporal companions.1988, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, editor, Topics in cognitive linguistics, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 583, →ISBN. From the entry contemporality
  • Young men washed in the ecstasy of macho male companionship rode a jeep through barren country and embraced at a bar piled up with beer cans.1979, Kate Braverman, chapter 3, in Lithium for Medea: A Novel, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry you only go around once
  • Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row. From the entry properness

Meaning of companionship

  1. noun The state of having or being a companion.
  2. noun An association, a fellowship.
  3. noun The state of being a journeyman.

Full definition of companionship

Questions about companionship in a sentence

How do you use companionship in a sentence?
Companionship is used as a noun. For example: “The dog provided comfort and companionship.”
What is a short sentence with companionship?
“a companionship of printers”
What does companionship mean?
Companionship means the state of having or being a companion.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: companionship (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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