The phrase "maintain friends" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to keep or continue one's relationships with friends. Example: It is important to maintain friends through regular communication and spending quality time together.
Bereavement is an obvious trigger, but we shouldn't also forget the impact of loss of sight/hearing, poor health and even loss of confidence in our ability to make and maintain friends.
And his advice rings true for all scientists, disabled or not: "To do something rewarding, to have a life, and to maintain friends and family, is really the best outcome one can hope for".
Precisely because they have to learn skills outside the home -- whether at school or day care and the like, they tend to have a greater ability to make and maintain friends and to resolve conflict.
The level of secrecy surrounding Sonia's campaign and her intentions has been scrupulously maintained; friends of Sonia have been bound by a collective code of silence.
Although she left Quincy more than 70 years ago as a stagestruck girl bound for Broadway, she read the local newspaper and maintained friends there her entire life.
Fig. 5 The distribution of (K_I) and (K_C) considering symmetric links for (a) never friends (b) maintained friends (c) new friends and (d) lost friends.
Maintaining friends in a high-pressure professional environment can help you get ahead, say career experts.
His father (a software designer) and mother (a radiologist) note the boy's long history of difficulty making and maintaining friends, oversensitivity to noise, and repetitive hand-twirling.
In this context, the proposed SoNR protocol would monitor the friends list for misbehaving nodes and it would maintain the friends list only with good reputed friend nodes.
Empire maintains its "keep friends close and enemies closer" mentality intact with Cookie organising a lavish #freelucious concert in the season premiere.
I basically told my friends... that I have friends on both sides and that I wanted to maintain those friends". So he wore army pants and desert boots.
