My dinner companions, who arrived later, had the same experience.

So she was an always available dinner companion, even if people talked about her.

You are a fine scientist and a wonderful dinner companion.

And that, the new Governor informed his dinner companions, was fine by him.

There was nothing special about them at all; indeed, my dinner companions and I felt had.

"I was a really bad dinner companion back then," he said.

I could imagine that, under other circumstances, he might make a fine dinner companion.

Would he, as a great favor, consider being her dinner companion?

He glanced across the table at his two dinner companions.

Her dinner companions had a way of ending up shot to death.