How to Use family friend in a Sentence

family friend

noun

• The groom is the eldest son of our closest family friend.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• The girl is a family friend of Murtagh’s, according to the report.
  — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• The girl was eventually able to reach a family friend, who picked her up and took her to her home.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
• The family friend heard her scream during the call and then lost contact with Russell.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• My mom’s twin sister Patty was the maid of honor and family friend Joe Ruszczyk was best man.
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Breaking all ties with a family friend — one who helped make Ben’s famous around the country — would not seem to fit the pattern of Ali’s life.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• So Obaid turned to an oil consultant and old family friend to value the oilfield.
  — Hugo Miller, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• Bill Fuller -- the Yarborough's close family friend who helped get that memorial bench built for Sarah.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
• As the story goes, a family friend, Max Merkur, rediscovered the works in the 1970s, and Merkur’s children donated them to the gallery.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• Police said Warner, a mother of five, had last been seen by a family friend on the evening of April 24 and then by her husband the next morning.
  — Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• His wife, Cathy Merring-Regan, confirmed the news on Facebook in a post shared by a family friend.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
• The intimate setting feels like the ranch of a family friend, and that is exactly what the Palma’s are hoping to achieve.
  — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2023
• His son Dennis, who eventually took the reins, sold it in 2015 to family friend Thomas Tognetti.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2024
• Days after his brother Joe’s killing, a family friend’s 2-year-old daughter was shot and wounded in a drive-by.
  — Freep.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• At the time, the Spiderman actress hired her family friend, Claire Thomas, to decorate their new home.
  — Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• The car’s driver — a family friend who was also the boys’ nanny — was also injured.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
• Viet Dinh is a longtime family friend of the Murdochs, and is the godfather to one of Lachlan Murdoch’s sons.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• Beaupre, who was single, abandoned an accounting career to join the Marines in 1996, a family friend said.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Many came from a family friend who delivered movie reels to theaters and TV studios.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Evelyn and her older sister often spent portions of the summer at the farm of a family friend in Linden, Va.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• In the summer of 2016, a family friend, Ali Ewoldt, made history as the first actress of color to play Christine on Broadway.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• One brother, a year older, went back and forth between home and a family friend's house, and Small's other siblings went off to college.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• An assistant to the anesthetist was a family friend who recognized Karen and was distraught.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• Typically, the ring bearer is a young boy or girl and is either the couple’s own child, a relative, or a close family friend.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 7 May 2024
• The relatives of a man who died after he was knocked on the head with a pistol in 2020 offered a measure of forgiveness to the family friend who killed the Portland patriarch.
  — oregonlive, 12 July 2023
• The Sandler family and a family friend at the Murder Mystery premiere.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Hotels declined to book him as a minor, so his parents scrambled to find a family friend who hosted Tanish last-minute.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• Adee Drexler, an old family friend who has been Richie Grainge’s manager for the past five years, says her accessibility is the key to her success.
  — Maer Roshan, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
• At a Thanksgiving dinner, a family friend jokes about resetting the scales to take 25 pounds off its measurement.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Cole claimed to have leased a new residence in District 10 from a family friend to meet the residency requirement.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024