How to Use companionable in a Sentence

companionable

adjective
  • The finest of these movies offer up their own companionable glow.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • But each narrator is a companionable guide, and each book has juicy tidbits to offer.
    — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The two have been companionable, even as Warren steadily gains on Sanders in the polls.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • From then on, their locker room atmosphere became more than just companionable.
    — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • Not just the comfortable, companionable silences but the ones that carry weight.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Adam’s silence can seem sweetly companionable one moment and freighted with trauma the next.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • And a bevy of similar beauties flocks around her with companionable buoyancy.
    — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • In a companionable, lively voice, the author includes us in those adventures.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Hudson’s companionable presence, and some of his delightful prose, enrich this book.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • 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 companionable dynamics in his scenes with Melling and Kene are a treat and help to leaven the languor that sets in the back-half of the run-time.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • For a while, the team sits together in the truck, watching in companionable silence as the lumbering giants disappear, one by one, into the trees.
    — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Both terribly sad and unexpectedly companionable, this quiet book does just that.
    — Moira MacDonald, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
  • Feldman has seldom sounded so companionable.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The glance of her companionable eye, the flash of her comprehending smile possess the electrical quality to an all-conquering degree.
    — Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The opera is too domesticated, earthbound, and companionable to convey that extreme bleakness.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • And companionship doesn’t even have to include conversation to be companionable.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dogs are highly companionable, obedient, and playful animals.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Your 7th House of Coalitions is soothed by the moody Moon’s trine with apprehensive Chiron in your companionable 11th house.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026

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