keeping company
Example Sentences
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Rather than the hammer blow of a mass walkout, the UAW has used strikes like a ratchet, keeping company executives guessing where the next turn would come.
From Reuters • Sep. 29, 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
Several mourners stayed at Wat Rat Samakee overnight in the tradition of keeping company for those who died young.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Haji says Ikrima was aloof, keeping company mainly with al-Shabab's foreign fighters, who he says got preferential treatment in the organisation.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2013
“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
