close company
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Everywhere, it seems, Christmas keeps close company with calamity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
McKenzie chased his neat kick through to reclaim the ball and offload to Will Jordan, with the touchline for close company, in one movement.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023
I spent the better part of a decade in the close company of that fascinating, vexing man, dead some 200 years yet far more alive to me than most of my neighbors.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2018
“Basically, we were traveling around in close company with people who were really having a good time and partying and we weren’t,” Becker said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press.
From Washington Times • Sep. 4, 2017
Although I was no longer in love with the Captain, I did not wish to be thrown in such close company with him again—just the two of us.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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