fellow traveller
Britishnoun
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a companion on a journey
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a non-Communist who sympathizes with Communism
Example Sentences
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One fellow traveller even suggested to me that jurors could string it out a bit because that way they would get a couple of days of free lunches.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
A fellow traveller, who identified himself as TheFatTrader on Twitter, said everyone on the Jersey flight had to get off while staff checked that the man had not left anything behind.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2019
I think Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene both did so in the 1930s, and didn’t even mention in their books that the fellow traveller was there.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
Lawless is the second script that Cave has written for director John Hillcoat, his longtime friend and Australian-born fellow traveller, best known for his recent adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's dystopian novel, The Road.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012
There were only two more lunchers—Poirot’s fellow traveller MacQueen and his employer Mr. Ratchett.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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