Sentence examples for befriending from inspiring English sources

She recalls befriending a group of girls when she was 14, who at first proposed she join them when they went out.

What was more, Rachel realised how deeply Tom's loss had affected her father Frank, later the Earl of Longford, and how it formed the foundation of the work in prison reform for which he was famous (he became a household name for befriending the Moors murderer Myra Hindley) and as a Labour cabinet minister under Harold Wilson.

Normally those trains are silent, but people were befriending each other, sharing water, things like that.

"Telephone befriending" projects have been set up, such as one by the Seafarers Link in which ex-seafarers are encouraged to call each other on a weekly basis.

He backed democracy at the last minute, befriending most subsequent presidents.

The author has a knack for befriending interesting people and tracking down important ones.

Perhaps he believes that, by befriending Mr Mugabe, he can persuade him to rule more wisely though he has so far failed.

The young Mr Lanier was far more comfortable in the company of adults and had a talent for befriending clever people who acted as mentors.

Long before the Lone Ranger, May was giving unruly cowboys what-for, befriending Winnetou, a great Apache warrior, and generally bringing peace and order to the frontier.Though he is virtually unknown to the English-speaking world, May is possibly the most-read German author of all time: his books have sold an estimated 100m copies to date.

What was rather uncertain was the dynamic that would result from collaborating with and befriending my colleagues.

Might it not be that the women in their lonely lives nurtured a fantasy that dressed things up a bit, befriending girls without a mother in order themselves to be befriended?