All 7 Uses of
accompany
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Bibi jo was invariably accompanied by one of her six brides and a grandchild or two.
p. 15..7accompanied = escorted (in the company of)
- Mariam stood beside Bibi jo, with the women, as Mullah Faizullah recited prayers at the graveside and the men lowered Nana's shrouded body into the ground-Afterward, Jalil walked Mariam to the kolba, where, in front of the villagers who accompanied them, he made a great show of tending to Mariam.
p. 37..4accompanied = joined (traveled with)
- Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government--No, Babi meant the tribal areas, especially the Pashtun regions in the south or in the east near the Pakistani border, where women were rarely seen on the streets and only then in burqa and accompanied by men.
p. 135..9accompanied = escorted (in the company of)
- And, when she did, she was always accompanied by Tariq, who seemed to relish this chivalric duty.
p. 174..9
- If you go outside, you must be accompanied by a mahram, a male relative.
p. 278..2 *
- At first, Rasheed humored Laila, and accompanied them--her, Mariam, and Zalmai--to the orphanage, though he made sure, as they walked, that she had an eyeful of his grievous looks, an earful of his rants over what a hardship she was putting him through, how badly his legs and back and feet ached walking to and from the orphanage.
p. 319..5accompanied = traveled with
- Rasheed had relented this time-as he infrequently did-and accompanied the four of them.
p. 322..6
Definition:
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(accompany as in: accompany on the journey) to travel along with