Sentence examples for mates has been from inspiring English sources

But having FARC guerrillas as his de facto running mates has been costly for Santos.

He can do this indefinitely – one of my prison mates has been behind bars for 6 months without a single charge.

Halfway through the fall debates, the sparring between President Obama and Mitt Romney and their running mates has been notable for the absence of an issue Mr. Romney has pressed on the campaign trail and in his television advertising: China.

Joe McGinty, the maestro of a continuing endeavor to cast all great pop moments in Velveeta and 20-carat gold, says this inquiry into the genius of Freddie Mercury and his mates has been the hardest to orchestrate so far.

The Australian Worker newspaper had this to say of the Yes-casers: [W]hat a god-forsaken and incongruous … collection of market-riggers, fat-bellied capitalists, anti-Labor, wage-depressors, scab-promoters … [T]he heartbreaking picture of hungry and unfortunate workers 'scabbing' on their mates has been to them the very elixir of life.

Sexual selection acting through female choice of mates has been extremely important in shaping the evolution of animal communication.

Before long, a short list of prospective running mates had been put together, including Howard Baker, William Simon, Jack Kemp, Richard Lugar, Paul Laxalt and George Bush.

The candidates or their running mates have been visiting Missouri almost once a week.

David proudly showed us his bunk, which he and his mates had been cleaning all week.

All my mates have been on Facebook with pictures of themselves in beer gardens and having barbeques already.

"All five of my hut mates had been shot," Mr. Cassie told the British newspaper The Sun in 2001.