Sentence examples for friendly pat from inspiring English sources

We weren't surprised when Clifford gave it a friendly pat.

We were heading out of the Tory conference hotel for dinner, when the prime minister hove up, and gave Steve a – fairly – friendly pat on the arm.

Varela, stationed nearby but getting mighty closer at speed, motioned to give Bigode a friendly pat on the head, then issued a little cuff round the defender's ear.

Then, when the hearing was adjourned, she gave her client a friendly pat on the back and, zoom, she was off, back to her office and a great deal of work.

He lightly stroked the hood, then stroked it again, as if it were not a car but an old horse, tied to a fence and given a friendly pat to indicate that the wait would not be long.

Amid the roar of voices, the EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, greeted the prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, with air kisses and a friendly pat on the back.

Until recently, their only brush with the law had been the judges and lawyers who routinely stopped to give them friendly pats on the head.

"It was casual, friendly, patting on the bottom, to start off with.

They're performing as if they're four friends throwing a house party chatting and giving each other friendly pats on the back.

"At the first few set pieces he came up to me and gave me a friendly little pat as if to ask: 'Do you enjoy playing against me?'" Thomas said.

Pat pat pat with the dishcloth.