companionably

Example Sentences

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Warren said she and Trump had a phone conversation in which they seemed to have talked companionably about the issue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

Rather than write companionably about her failures, she describes flying “a novel into the side of a mountain after years of work and multiple drafts” and pulling a story “from the still-smoking wreckage.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Running Out: You can accept some silences as normal, since they can be, companionably so.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

They seem like nice people, Victor the doctor and Martha the maid, chatting away companionably in his comfortable office at the clinic.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2019

But Hannah and Prudence were fast friends now, and she knew that the reading went companionably on.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare