Friend means: A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. Related words include person or soul. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Friend in practice.
Friend in a sentence
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Friend meaning
- A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
Synonyms of Friend
Example sentences (20)
When he went missing, his wife reportedly told a friend she planned on breaking up with him, according to a friend.
It was Peter Lawford, who was Frank’s good friend and partner in Puccini’s and who’d become a good friend of mine.
One friend recently killed herself after enduring the losses of her son, mother, best friend, and a niece and nephew.
Two weeks before the shooting, he asked a close female friend if she would still be his friend if he were a murderer.
Two other galaxies are also in the vicinity, called Firefly BF (Best Friend) and Firefly NBF (New Best Friend.
When you celebrated beating your friend for the first time in a Pokemon game and your friend was actually happy for you.
At worst, she was the best friend; and at best, she was the childhood friend that was competing with Zero Two.
When a friend sought to intervene, Cassidy assaulted the friend and threatened to shoot her for trespassing.
Another friend of Durr’s, has also tried Durr’s cooking and can’t wait for her friend’s business to launch.
A much loved husband, best friend and soulmate of Sue who will miss you forever and a good friend to many.
Israeli army officer's friend, in an interview on Israeli army radio, discloses shocking details about his friend's actions.
The terrifying drama happened on Saturday, June 17 while Chloe was staying with a friend and her friend’s family in the area.
What a good and stalwart friend main character Finn is in her dogged quest for perfect reading material for her friend Ginny!
As the spring semester unfolded, that classmate transitioned into a friend, and before I knew it, they became my best friend.
I ended up getting an apartment with a mutual friend, with the understanding that Old Friend was not welcome in the apartment.
Those readers who want to say hello again to that friend of a friend known as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, you needn't go far.
An FAQ on the Friend website warns: 'Your friend and their memories are attached to the physical device.
At one point, a friend in Silver Spring was singing a duet across city lines with a friend in Columbia.
My dear friend, you’ll be terribly missed,” wrote his friend and caretaker Marc Bahan on Facebook.
My friend and I met online, and we have another friend, Reina, whom we know from that same circle.
Phrases with friend
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with friend
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- friend and 41×
- friend of 36×
- best friend 32×
- her friend 31×
- the friend 27×
- his friend 25×
- friend to 19×
- friend who 17×
- of friend 16×
- my friend 14×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word friend. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.