Sentence examples for than companion from inspiring English sources

Still, it's easier for people to understand than "companion to this time-travelling chap who whizzes around the universe in a police call box".

"He had an insatiable appetite for one-way conversation," Mr. Silverman said the other day, recalling some off-the-air encounters in which he felt more like audience than companion.

But in the Communist era, dogs were more likely to be guards, herders or meals than companions.

We choose to court grief by adopting pets, which in essence are no more than companions with built-in obsolescence.

First came the working-class people of London's east end, whom Beatrice grew to admire much more than companions from her own class.

And newer robots have the potential to serve as much more than companions.

The baseline difference for the high group was positive and significant (P<0.001), indicating companions of participants in the high group reported significantly worse participant functioning at baseline than companions of the controls.

In the high group, there is a divergence between participant and companion reports with participants reporting slower rate of functional decline than companions, who report decline at a rate similar to the medium group with greater functional loss.

Ms. Greig has been a supporting character in the long-running Bulger crime drama, overshadowed by her larger-than-life companion and always dutifully subordinate, acquaintances said.

And it's true that the smoke makes Maysville's food a more-than-willing companion to one of its 170 or so American whiskeys, or to a solidly constructed bourbon cocktail.

(2) The RCA concrete mixes, with a substitution of 23% (S = 1) and 47% (S = 2), proportioned by the EMV method, had strong resistance against the freeze-and-thaw action, being only less than 2% lower than the companion mix, while the RCA concrete mix with a substitution of 47%, proportioned by the conventional method, was 8% higher than the companion mix.