What's the difference between companionship and sisterhood?

Companionship


Definition:

  • (n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
  • (2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (3) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
  • (4) I’ve recently gained the companionship of a gorgeous Chihuahua and she’s a great source of fun and gives me an excuse to walk around the gorgeous countryside.
  • (5) My wife is not a lesbian, but we thought we could at least live a life of companionship and mutual support.
  • (6) Nothing happened sexually between us, but it was a way of having companionship, of being gay without having sex."
  • (7) Considered together, the results of these studies suggest that companionship plays a more important and more varied role in sustaining emotional well-being than previous studies have acknowledged.
  • (8) Spencer Ackerman: ‘Eating with animal friends is heavenly’ Spencer Ackerman After 12 years of stalwart companionship, my dog Kingsley died on 21 March.
  • (9) Men pass the time drinking and seeking female companionship and sex, either as long-term sexual partners, casual short-term partners, or cash clients.
  • (10) This was not the ideal time to be providing Doug with the intellectual companionship he seemed to crave."
  • (11) Stifled by the restrictions of her life in a small, provincial village, she longs for adventure and companionship.
  • (12) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
  • (13) Study 5 used an experimental design to test the hypothesis that a deficit of companionship elicits more negative reactions from others than does a deficit of social support.
  • (14) Just as important, they provided companionship for him.
  • (15) Stereomicroscopic observations determined that the three vessel types are so intricately intermingled that companionship in distribution does not exist.
  • (16) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
  • (17) Many have relied on their own social networks to find housing, work and companionship.
  • (18) There's an important distinction there; it was not that they found that users of Facebook were better supported emotionally, but that they reported that they felt they were, and in two key categories of emotional support and companionship.
  • (19) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
  • (20) The organisation provides companionship, skills and constructive, meaningful activity for people with mental health problems.

Sisterhood


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
  • (n.) A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Sisterhood Method, a community-based survey technique, was used to estimate the Life Time Risk of a woman dying a maternal death in Southern Malawi.
  • (2) Her family's privacy has been invaded to find the "causes" of her choice and her personal appearance derided, not least within what might otherwise be called the sisterhood.
  • (3) The rise of the sisterhood to 8 out of 19 elected places in the shadow cabinet is the other story from last night's vote.
  • (4) We’re told equality can be achieved by putting a few more women on boards in the mistaken belief that all women are ready to usher in a new age of equality for the sisterhood.
  • (5) When she meets the other clones she finally feels a sense of 'being home' – a sort of sisterhood, like twins have.
  • (6) It's purportedly a story about falling in love with an unpleasant man, but I read it as a love letter to sisterhood, with a small "s"; a love letter to her actual sister, Caz.
  • (7) The report highlights three distinct reasons expressed by women who had travelled to Isis: (1) because they believe that Islam is under attack; (2) because they want to contribute to the building of a new society and establishment of the Caliphate; and (3) because they believe in their individual duty to migrate to the Islamic State and a sense of sisterhood among those who do.
  • (8) This paper details a cooperative sisterhood minority recruitment and retention agreement that was established between a predominantly White university and a historically Black university for the purpose of increasing the numbers of minority personnel in speech-language pathology and audiology.
  • (9) Others may disagree, but they admit that the appetite for change may not be universal, even among the Sisterhood: the number of members who have taken on more political responsibility since last summer is still small.
  • (10) The sisterhood method provides a means of obtaining population-based estimates using household surveys for data collection.
  • (11) But really, the idea that the WI is the face of 21st century sisterhood should be no surprise at all.
  • (12) In addition to addressing the practical needs of adolescents who come to the Sisterhood, positive examples of healthy ways of relating to others and presentation of a system of values consonant with self and family development are provided.
  • (13) This field experience with the Sisterhood Method technique combined with an in-depth questionnaire for determining causes of maternal deaths has provided useful information in a simple and cost-effective manner for use in planning intervention strategies designed to decrease maternal mortality.
  • (14) Inequality and injustice have long existed but as I move to a new role at the Guardian, here, in the spirit of openness and sisterhood, are some things I've learned over the past almost four years.
  • (15) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
  • (16) Trusting that better days will come and yes they will, I am sending you my deep respect and sisterhood … I hope that you find comfort in the fact that your words echo far and wide, reaching hearts and minds beyond the bars of your cell, beyond the walls of your prison, reminding us that the freedom of speech is worth fighting for.
  • (17) The Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers Inc. (The Sisterhood) is an organization which exemplifies the considerable potential of community members united for a common good.
  • (18) I'd expected to find a great feeling of sisterhood, and actually didn't.
  • (19) The sisterhood method uses the proportions of adult sisters dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium reported by adults during a census or survey, to derive a variety of indicators of maternal mortality.
  • (20) Over a glass of wine, one Julie gently prods the question: “Does it represent, like, your mother?” This scene tells you more about sisterhood than any feminist edict ever could.