Sentence examples for friends ready from inspiring English sources

When she did, she had a team of art school friends ready to assist.

I had friends ready to throw stuff at me in case nobody did that, in case it didn't happen on its own".

Along the way, he has made sure that many of his appointees to those bodies have been friends ready to return the favour with big campaign donations.

LONG-SERVING dictators accused of corruption and nepotism; pervasive, cruel security forces; dissenting voices silenced in the name of the war against Islamist terrorism; worries about rising prices and jobless, rebellious youth; embarrassed Western friends ready to overlook a spot of repressive dictatorship and focus on the massive resources and strategic location.

Once a pianist with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Mr. Williams has a powerful grip on the whole postwar jazz tradition, and as a longtime jazz teacher and producer in New York, he has plenty of friends ready to stop by and celebrate him, including the singer Vanessa Rubin, the vibraphonist Stefon Harris and the bassist Ray Drummond.

There's hardly anything on divorce or single parents; Biddulph assumes a nuclear family, with plenty of aunts and interested adult friends ready to act as role models, and the Australian outback at close hand for soul-searching treks into the wilderness.

"My answer is, 'There are different ways to be a family.' " Dr. Gurr, who works at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, is running a list of possible baby names by friends, readying the second bedroom in his condo, arranging to work part-time for the first three months and interviewing nannies.

As I melted the butter, I called a friend, ready for the day's debriefing.

She's like a sympathetic but slightly critical friend, ready with a hug and unable not to give advice.

It has seen its best chance of doing so in being America's closest friend, ready to take on a hard fight; and this role has won it not just diplomatic clout but also preferential access to intelligence and technology.But being America's best military friend is an expensive business.

That said, it'll take time and apparently two more software engineers to get our artificially intelligent friend ready for developers.