Sentence examples for rather friends from inspiring English sources

To Anne they were not celebrities, and certainly not icons, but rather friends of the family from down the street.

Often, it's not the people she contacts who want the job, but rather friends of those contacts who end up getting the job.

Rather, friends and former work associates said, he was enthralled by the idea of renting convention space for 25 cents a square foot and selling it to vendors for $25 or more.

Rather, Friends was born out of a feeling of professional panic: "We'd just had a show [HBO's Dream On] cancelled, so for us it was just, OK, we need to get back on the air, here are some ideas, let's go," says Crane. "And the idea for Friends felt good and right from the start, but lots of things can feel good and right and they get pulled in less than a year".

Rather, friends engage in joint pursuits, in part motivated by the friendship itself.

Rather, friends can influence and shape each other's evaluative outlook, so that the sharing of a sense of value is reinforced through the dynamics of their relationship.

(Another of T.T.S.'s rules warns that a "good party is never spoiled by your friend but, rather, that friend of a friend who tags along").

The other woman, she is older, she is a friend, or rather, a friend of a friend.

They are colleagues rather than friends.

There was nothing to counter Houvenaghel's assertion that they were "colleagues" rather than friends.

The archetypal noir hero, Quirke is a loner, a man with acquaintances rather than friends.