Examples of befriend in a Sentence
He befriended the new student.
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Robinson was a behemoth in New York—a person whose art was known to many, who befriended a multitude of famous artists, and whose writing was at one point read by just about anybody who mattered in the city’s art world.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Similar to the series, Gibson befriended one family whose son had anaplastic astrocytoma grade III.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Linda finds her own therapist (Conan O’Brien) insufferably hard-hearted; one of her own patients (Danielle Macdonald) gets ignored in a moment of crisis; a man named James (A$AP Rocky), the super at the motel, befriends her but gets little to show for it but insult and injury.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Prystaiko, a former computer scientist, had previously befriended Maxwell, a former chief technology officer for the British government.
—Matt Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2025
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Similar to the series, Gibson befriended one family whose son had anaplastic astrocytoma grade III.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Linda finds her own therapist (Conan O’Brien) insufferably hard-hearted; one of her own patients (Danielle Macdonald) gets ignored in a moment of crisis; a man named James (A$AP Rocky), the super at the motel, befriends her but gets little to show for it but insult and injury.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Prystaiko, a former computer scientist, had previously befriended Maxwell, a former chief technology officer for the British government.
—Matt Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befriend. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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befriend
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be·friend
bi-ˈfrend 
: to become or act as a friend to
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