Sentence examples for plain friends from inspiring English sources

Again, it's usually impossible to tell, though the spectrum is probably wide: fathers and sons, teachers and students, pairs of brothers, cousins, army buddies, school friends, business friends, just plain friends, "special friends," lovers.

All the necessary ingredients are here: spooky woods, walkie-talkies as the bleeding edge of technology, nosebleeds as a sign of violent mental effort, lost spirits communicating through mains electricity and crackling phonelines, elasticated walls through which desperate hands and screaming faces push, and plain friends doomed to bloody deaths in the furtherance of plot.

It's all tweetness and light as @scobleizer sketches out the differences between just plain friends, close friends, and notification friends in the latest Facebook interface.

Audrey lived with her plain friend, Grace, with whom she'd become close during the war.

If you are a generally reserved person, or are seen as the loyal or plain type, (friend zoned?) try wearing a dark red or maroon shirt, nothing too garish.

"It's best shared with friends, plain, on some Pugliese bread, that's all," he said.

Jelovcic, often in pigtails and 11 years his junior, wore no makeup, very plain clothes, and friends say "could have passed for Amish".

In plain words: new friends get free money to buy your stuff.

Amanda Seyfried as Anita "Needy" Lesnicki: In February 2008, Seyfried was cast as Anita "Needy" Lesnicki, the "plain Jane" best friend to Fox's character with whom she shares a somewhat lesbian infatuation.

Fifty metres away, in the DJ's booth at Paradise Bungalows, sits Burmese immigrant DJ Shine – or just plain Shane to his friends.

He's all but forgotten except by his relatives, his friends from Plain Dealing and the handful of surviving octogenarians who played football with him at L.S.U.