company
noun
a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
companying
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present participleof company.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018
As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Denas is companying with Roland Tresham she oughtn’t to do it, and I must tell her so, that I must.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Sus 1:58 Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them companying together?
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
You are a sad crew," began the King, eyeing them pleasantly, and sitting forward with a hand on either knee, "and I am astonished, my Lord of Canterbury, at your companying with them.
From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson
