Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

2 PREP If something is put with or is with something else, they are used at the same time. □  Serve hot, with pasta or rice and French beans. □  Cookies are just the thing to serve with tall glasses of real lemonade.

3 PREP If you do something with someone else, you both do it together or are both involved in it. □  Parents will be able to discuss their child's progress with their teacher. □  He walked with her to the front door.

4 PREP If you fight, argue, or compete with someone, you oppose them. □  About a thousand students fought with riot police in the capital. □  He was in an argument with his landlord downstairs.

5 PREP If you do something with a particular tool, object, or substance, you do it using that tool, object, or substance. □  Remove the meat with a fork and divide it among four plates. □  Doctors are treating him with the drug AZT.

6 PREP If someone stands or goes somewhere with something, they are carrying it. □  A man came round with a tray of chocolates.

7 PREP Someone or something with a particular feature or possession has that feature or possession. □  He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes. □  Someone with an income of $34,895 can afford this loan.

8 PREP Someone with an illness has that illness. □  I spent a week in bed with flu.

9 PREP If something is filled or covered with a substance or with things, it has that substance or those things in it or on it. □  His legs were caked with dried mud. □  They sat at a Formica table cluttered with dirty tea cups.

10 PREP If you are, for example, pleased or annoyed with someone or something, you have that feeling towards them. □  He was still a little angry with her. □  I am happy with that decision.

11 PREP You use with to indicate what a state, quality, or action relates to, involves, or affects. □  Our aim is to allow student teachers to become familiar with the classroom. □  He still has a serious problem with money. □  Depression lowers the human ability to cope with disease.

12 PREP You use with when indicating the way that something is done or the feeling that a person has when they do something. □  …teaching her to read music with skill and sensitivity. □  He agreed, but with reluctance.

13 PREP You use with when indicating a sound or gesture that is made when something is done, or an expression that a person has on their face when they do something. □  With a sigh, she leant back and closed her eyes. □  The front door closed with a crash behind him.

14 PREP You use with to indicate the feeling that makes someone have a particular appearance or type of behaviour. □  Gil was white and trembling with anger. □  I felt sick to my stomach with sadness for them.

15 PREP You use with when mentioning the position or appearance of a person or thing at the time that they do something, or what someone else is doing at that time. □  Joanne stood with her hands on the sink, staring out the window. □  Michelle had fallen asleep with her head against his shoulder.

16 PREP You use with to introduce a current situation that is a factor affecting another situation. □  With all the courses available, there is no excuse for not getting some training. □  With the win, the U.S. reclaimed the cup for the first time since 1985.