accompany (one)

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accompany (one)

1. To travel with one. This phrase can be used in reference to both people and things. While I enjoy spending time alone, I sometimes wish I had someone to accompany me on vacations. Pete's dog was more than happy to accompany him to the park. My cell phone always accompanies me when I leave the house.
2. To play a musical instrument in support of a featured band or performer. While her little sister played the flute, Sarah accompanied her on the clarinet. Will you accompany me on piano when I sing at the talent show? No, you don't get a solo—you're just supposed to be accompanying me while I sing!
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accompany someone on a musical instrument

to provide complementary instrumental music for someone's musical performance. Sally accompanied the singer on the piano.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in classic literature ?
Professor Maxon and Sing accompanied one of the officers and a dozen sailors in the wake of the Dyak guide.
He accompanied one of his fighters to Texas for a weekend bout.
The wife accompanied one of the men inside the bedroom and handed him the money.
The music group accompanied one of the hymns, and Hilary Livingstone read the lessons.
And it was overwhelmingly underlined with the ground's final fixture of the football year with the floor-shaking, spine-tingling that accompanied one of the national side's greatest nights.
And it was overwhelmingly underlined with the ground's final fixture of the football year with the floorshaking, spine-tingling that accompanied one of the national side's greatest nights.
* "A marching band accompanied one guy in his announcement."
He joined a band playing Calypso beats and accompanied one of their female singers.
A convoy of security escorts on motorcycles and police cars accompanied one of the three vehicles intended for the pontiff.
When his correspondent sent him a self-portrait in thong underwear, Weiner responded with a flurry of naked shots - but accompanied one picture with the message: "If this ends up anywhere, I know you did it."
Jeff Snedeker performed a sonata by Thurner (1812) and a Divertissement by Duvernoy on a recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accompanied one of the museum's fortepianos (Hoffmann, ca.
On this trip, with skipper Colin Penny at the helm, Russell accompanied one of his friends from work, but was delighted to meet a few other anglers who he had met before on previous charters.
Julie Vaughan Borges, a social studies and criminal justice teacher who accompanied one of the groups of about 20 students, said they would be writing papers based on what they saw and heard in court.
The aide of the lawyer accompanied one of the villagers who took the petition to the local police station.
The court heard Dawson also accompanied one of the women into Belfast in April and arranged hotel accommodation for her.