Sentence examples for sole friend from inspiring English sources

They took refuge in February with her sole friend in New York, only to be stranded a month later when the friend moved and the landlord refused to let Ms. Alegria and her children remain.

It's by far the bleakest of her novels, however, and its story - of an impoverished young woman, with no marital prospects, whose sole friend is an ailing clergyman father - may have been uncomfortably close to the facts of Austen's own life just then.

With the aid of his tutor, Amyus Crowe, and his sole friend, an urchin named Matty, Holmes is off to investigate his very first case, showing how the precocious teenager becomes the legendary Sherlock Holmes, the world's most influential consulting detective.

At the age of 12, Harriet sets off in the company of her sole friend, a sweet boy named Hely Hull who is hopelessly in love with her, to deliver justice to the person she wrongly imagines to be his murderer.

I often find myself the sole black friend of many white people, the stand-in for the entirety of my race, my white friends' go-to expert witness in the ongoing trial to be perceived as (at least) not racist, their alibi in the court of public opinion.

The sole black "friend" is a blank.

It looked set to renounce all future interest in the EU, treat America as its sole western friend, redirect its foreign-policy energies towards a new and fast-growing economic role in Central Asia, and probably become a less secular state in the process.This would not have caused the EU any short-term heartbreak, but in the long term it would have meant missing out on a huge opportunity.

The voice of reason comes from Nate's sole platonic female friend, the shrewdest in Waldman's post-feminist cast of characters: "We hope that at the end of it we wind up happier than our grandparents, who didn't spend this vast period of their lives, these prime years, so thoroughly alone.

She was supposed to get it on with her Gender Equality Society co-founder, sole member and friend (they asked each other to prom and they both said yes), but the flower-embellished dress her mom sewed on her wouldn't come off and it made the poor guy so antsy she had to leave their hotel room.

Alexander III, the last tsar but one, praised Montenegro's King Nikola as Russia's "sole true and loyal friend".

Transcripts were leaked of telephone conversations in which he seemed to be asking for jobs and advancement for his friends.The sole beneficiary of the scandals is Mr Berlusconi, who has found himself in the novel position of being able to talk reproachfully and credibly of a "moral issue" facing his rivals.