Sentence examples for become a friend to from inspiring English sources

But Elsa, a young Cape Town schoolteacher (Ms. Gugino) who has become a friend to Miss Helen, wants her to live her remaining years at home.

Mr. Distenfeld, a slight, over-eager eccentric who wears rock dust in his hair, has become a friend to foremen on excavation and construction sites because he saves big bucks and long hauls.

This time the unlucky protagonist is a language professor eager to track down rare dialects, and just as keen to become a friend to the people he patronises with his learning.

While the saintly Dalai Lama has won the Nobel peace prize and become a friend to Hollywood stars, few outside the Islamic world have heard of Isa Yusuf Alptekin, exiled head of the Islamic Republic of East Turkestan, who died in 1995, aged 94, or of Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur businesswoman who is the movement's new figurehead.

To become a friend to the poor is to acknowledge and to be sensitive to the economic state of its congregants.

Gather resources that promote and describe how you can become a friend to virtually anyone.

He became a friend to both of them.

She became a friend to me on the bus, reassured me, and told me not to pay attention to negative comments.

She becomes a friend to Lark (a k a Hubert Pinkney), a psychotically shy college dropout, and an enemy of Mireya (in the virtual world, a statuesque beauty; in reality, a bitter little woman named Florence Vito Watson).

I became a friend to his two sons, Jeffrey and Daniel (especially while they produced a TNT documentary on the making of "Gone With the Wind") and the witness to many hours-long rants and reveries from Selznick's first wife, Irene Mayer.

In 1951, when "I Love Lucy" arrived in living rooms across America via the novel technology of television, the red-headed comedienne became a friend to a fifth of the nation, heralding a new, more intimate kind of celebrity.