congenial

in a sentence

She found her new colleagues to be quite congenial, making her transition to the new job much easier.

They remained frozen in attitudes of congeniality, smiling at each other across the plates of now-rotting food, and flies.  (source) Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, 1969

Calvin seemed to be the most congenial of them, and followed the introductions with a command to King Walker to "get this city boy some shoes for his feet."  (source) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977

Some people said there must be more education, but a boy with education did not want to work on the farms, and went off to the towns to look for more congenial occupation.  (source) Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948

Perry's cell adjoined Dick's; though invisible to each other, they could easily converse, yet Perry seldom spoke to Dick, and it wasn't because of any declared animosity between them (after the exchange of a few tepid reproaches, their relationship had turned into one of mutual toleration: the acceptance of uncongenial but helpless Siamese twins); it was because Perry, cautious as always, secretive, suspicious, disliked having the guards and other inmates overhear his "private business"—especially Andrews, or Andy, as he was called on the Row.†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

They take turns leaning forward to point out their moves with shrewd congeniality, playing it like a chess match, the kind of game that allows civilized men to play at make-believe murder.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

They both watched me attentively, congenially.†  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.†  (source) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1902

There was an air of congeniality, shared knowledge and camaraderie.†  (source) Nora Roberts, Summer Pleasures, 2002

Not all defects could be explained so congenially.†  (source) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975

Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.  (source) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, 1892