Sample Sentences for
consort
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consort as in:  consort together

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    She consorts with gang members and criminals.
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    Unless my father decides that a man from Adarlan might make me a good consort, and then I'll be here until that matter is settled.  (source)
    consort = spouse
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    Time and again she's been seen consorting with the devil down in that meadow!  (source)
    consorting = spending time with
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    Do you allow your slaves to consort with the enemy?  (source)
    consort = associate
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    He disappeared after leaving the school … traveled far and wide … sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognizable.  (source)
    consorted = spent leisure time with
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    She'd brought this on herself. Consorting unchaperoned. A natural wanting had led her unmarried to a cheap motel, but still unsatisfied.  (source)
    Consorting = spending time together
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    Then said King Peter (for they talked in quite a different style now, having been Kings and Queens for so long), "Fair Consorts, let us now alight from our horses and follow this beast into the thicket; for in all my days I never hunted a nobler quarry."  (source)
    Consorts = friends and associates (people with whom one spends time)
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    In a more enlightened day when witches and familiars were better understood, George would have found his, or rather her, end in a bonfire, because if ever there was a familiar, an envoy of the devil, a consorter with evil spirits, George is it.†  (source)
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    Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo,— Mercutio.  (source)
    consortest = keeps company
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou consortest" in older English, today we say "You consort."
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    The early Church feared that if the lineage were permitted to grow, the secret of Jesus and Magdalene would eventually surface and challenge the fundamental Catholic doctrine—that of a divine Messiah who did not consort with women or engage in sexual union.  (source)
    consort = have sexual relations
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    Invariably accompanied by a gorgeous French secretary-interpreter who may or may not have consorted with Russian royalty.  (source)
    consorted = associated with
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    "Now about these folks you've been consorting with," said Joe, turning his attention once again to me.  (source)
    consorting = associating with
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    We are friends in the way people in an unprovisioned lifeboat are, chance consorts who are sure that they'll be picked up soon, any day now, but not exactly how or when.†  (source)
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consort as in:  consort to the queen

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Most queens in history were queens consort.
consort = the spouse of a reigning monarch
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    As a king consort, his only constitutional duty was to help create an heir.
    consort = spouse of a reigning monarch
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    He would be a prince consort, as no one can hold a title higher than mine.  (source)
    consort = spouse
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    She makes a point to keep Kenny O'Donnell aware of the precise time she plans to leave for and return from any trip outside the White House, just to make sure she doesn't stumble upon the president in flagrante delicto with a consort.  (source)
    consort = sexual partner
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    It isn't easy for the Empress's consort to have friends.  (source)
    consort = a husband, wife, or companion -- especially of a reigning monarch
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    He took a cab to the embassy, and within twenty minutes witnessed two women licking a man's pierced nipples, bestride him like barbarian consorts.  (source)
    consorts = sexual partners
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    A queen must have a consort.  (source)
    consort = spouse
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    So the list of his consorts grows by the day.  (source)
    consorts = sexual partners
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    We caught a man with a knife climbing into the pen for mouse deer; he said he was going to punish evil Ravana (who in the Ramayana took the form of a deer when he kidnapped Sita, Rama's consort).  (source)
    consort = spouse
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    It has not been seen in our times that such fortresses have been of use to any prince, unless to the Countess of Forli, when the Count Girolamo, her consort, was killed; for by that means she was able to withstand the popular attack and wait for assistance from Milan, and thus recover her state;  (source)
    consort = royal spouse
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    With Camille in line for her throne and Ahren as her prince consort, his primary duty is to France now.  (source)
    consort = spouse
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    This one indicates that the president of the United States is having sex with a consort of Sam Giancana, not only one of the most notorious mobsters in the country, but also at the top of the list of Mafia kingpins whom Bobby Kennedy is trying to bring down.  (source)
    consort = sexual partner
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    Consort.  (source)
    Consort = spouse
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    Good for thy consort and the royal house.  (source)
    consort = royal spouse
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each.  (source)
consort = group
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