Sentence examples for a friend before from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a friend before" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of prior friendship or relationship, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "I always considered him a friend before anything else."
Alternatives: "a friend first" or "a friend initially".

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Here let me show you," he said, grabbing a phone from a friend, before playing a gory video with the headless corpses of Isis militants piled on the bonnet of an American Humvee.

Make sure that you DON'T like him as more than a friend BEFORE you turn him down.

There's something there," he told a friend before created the podcast "Making Gay History".

"Who's the champ now?" Larry Dorsey, 60, asked a friend before the service began.

Instead, she enjoys some quiet time with a friend before opening up for the day.

Mr. Anderson is accused of tipping off a friend before the acquisition.

Phil Joel, 26, was considered a friend before he was recruited as bass player.

Such solidarity and awe I felt, you'd think I'd never had a friend before.

I would like to go into Paris to visit a friend before boarding the connecting flight.

One zipped by on Rollerblades and waved to a friend before stopping to shove a sandwich into his backpack.

The memoir, owned by his daughter, Lydia Turnage Connolly, was discovered by a friend before Mrs. Connolly's death, not afterward.

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