keep company with
idiomatic phrase
: to spend time with (someone)
He keeps company with the rich and famous.
" … But if you keep company with a disloyal man, we might think that you were disloyal, too. See?"—
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle(old-fashioned) She's been keeping company with a young man. = A young man has been keeping company with her. [=They have been spending time together in a way that shows romantic interest.]
[Charlie] Chaplin continued making great movies, but the original innocence began to wane. Once he started keeping company with the likes of Albert Einstein and George Bernard Shaw, he wanted to make masterpieces, at times spending weeks on filming a single shot.—The Associated Press
—sometimes used figurativelyThe Associated PressIn her garden, roses keep company with lilies.
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This mix of beautiful greens keeps company with apples and cranberries.
—Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2023
The mural keeps company with pieces by several other artists, many of them island regulars.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Packard is an appealing character to keep company with.
—Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
Ukraine now keeps company with Iraq, Syria, and Yemen as one of the world’s leading producers of internal refugees.
—Beth Mitchneck, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2016
Mammoth old-growth Western red cedar, Douglas firs and Western hemlock are the dominant species here, where 600- to 800-year-old trees keep company with lush swamps and marshes.
—Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 July 2021
So, this no-longer muse learns to keep company with herself.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Jean Prouvé and Mexican Campeche chairs keep company with Philippe Starck gnome stools and a 19th-century French country farm table that sat in the brothers’ childhood kitchen in New Orleans.
—William Li, ELLE Decor, 14 July 2022
There, tomes on lead mining in the Pennines and the letters of Bronson Alcott keep company with every book ever written about the Civil War, which was Tony’s passion.
—New York Times, 19 June 2022
Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2023
The mural keeps company with pieces by several other artists, many of them island regulars.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Packard is an appealing character to keep company with.
—Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
Ukraine now keeps company with Iraq, Syria, and Yemen as one of the world’s leading producers of internal refugees.
—Beth Mitchneck, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2016
Mammoth old-growth Western red cedar, Douglas firs and Western hemlock are the dominant species here, where 600- to 800-year-old trees keep company with lush swamps and marshes.
—Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 July 2021
So, this no-longer muse learns to keep company with herself.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Jean Prouvé and Mexican Campeche chairs keep company with Philippe Starck gnome stools and a 19th-century French country farm table that sat in the brothers’ childhood kitchen in New Orleans.
—William Li, ELLE Decor, 14 July 2022
There, tomes on lead mining in the Pennines and the letters of Bronson Alcott keep company with every book ever written about the Civil War, which was Tony’s passion.
—New York Times, 19 June 2022
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