Sentence examples for Friend from inspiring English sources

"friend" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in a variety of ways to refer to a close acquaintance. Example sentence: My best friend and I have been spending time together for years.

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Friend

noun

A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

  • John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.

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Michael Foxley, a former Highland council leader who lives on the outskirts of Fort William, said his friend Kennedy had gone to ground after his election defeat and they had not spoken since.

Diana, Princess of Wales, was an early advocate of the adoption of eastern costume, taking her cue from her close friend Jemima Goldsmith, who had more valid reasons to wear the shalwar kameez when she married Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, and converted to Islam.

Kulokas's 22-year-old friend Donatas was admitted to hospital at the same time in a serious condition after taking the same drug.

A friend, Ahmed, had told him that the best way to float was to turn supine and pretend to be dead.

Her friend Sepideh cuts in from across the room, disagreeing - "No way, I still see them at Haft-e Tir Square - they're still there".

Larkin's poem, written about his friend Winifred Arnott, sees the lost maiden name as a symbol of the erasure of a woman's youthful and sexually desirable self, now swallowed up in domestic duties and motherhood.

"My friend, Peter Sterling, a New Zealand mining expert and entrepreneur, got hold of, if I recall correctly, a million dollars from a New York banker to start up an internet company to broadcast or try stuff – basically anything – on the net and see what would stick.

My friend Ed and I used to argue for hours about the correct order of construction: sauce, duck, spring onions and cucumber (him); or duck, spring onions and cucumber, sauce (me, clearly right as you don't want the sauce soaking into the pancake).

Most of these skills remain unused, although my friend Rodney had a chance to test them when he was cast as a black servant in an end-of-term production of The Little Foxes.

His friend Beatrice Wood defended the choice of object, saying "the only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges".

He and a friend, Matthew Smith, each got $45,000 as a result of a 2010 beating they sustained outside a Mexican restaurant at the hands of men they understood to be off-duty Chicago cops.

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