All 7 Uses
accompany
in
Mao’s Last Dancer
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- The sports teacher stood in front of everyone with a loudspeaker in hand and shouted out the eight exercise routines accompanied by recorded music.
Chpt 1.6 *accompanied = joined at the same time
- They have come to Qingdao to collect us and will accompany us on our train trip to Beijing.
Chpt 1.7accompany = travel with
- She was frequently accompanied by a handsome retired dancer, or a retired opera singer, a movie actor or a Ping-Pong champion.
Chpt 2.14 *accompanied = joined
- The end of this year was the first and only time that we went to see the army stationed outside Beijing: there were several elite divisions, and about ten of us were assigned a soldier each as our mentor to accompany and instruct us every day.
Chpt 2.14accompany = travel along with
- Ben accompanied me to the Chinese embassy the next morning because I was too scared to go there by myself, given my last experience at the consulate in Houston.
Chpt 3.24accompanied = traveled with
- When I was a little boy I truly believed he would have goddesses accompanying him and there would be clouds surrounding him, just like a real god.†
Chpt 2.13
- We were hours too early and the check-in counter wasn't even open, so Zhang Shu, the head of our ballet department who was accompanying us, took us to a little canteen and bought us each a Coca-Cola.†
Chpt 2.17
Definitions:
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(1)
(accompany as in: accompany on the journey) to travel along with
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(2)
(accompany as in: the accompanying chart) to be present with at the same time and/or location -- sometimes provided to make something more complete or better
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(3)
(accompany as in: accompanied her in the performance) to perform with
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)