Friending is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Friending meaning
- A sentiment of friendship
- An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.
Using Friending
- The main meaning on this page is: A sentiment of friendship | An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.
- In the example corpus, friending often appears in combinations such as: speed friending.
Context around Friending
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Friending
- In this selection, "friending" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, speed, start and event stand out and add context to how "friending" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and start friending and before friending or accepting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "friending" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with friending
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Join Facebook and start friending. (5 words)
Before friending or accepting anyone’s follow request, it is necessary to actually know who they are. (17 words)
After Sunday's season 5 premiere of the HBO show, Mark Zuckerberg probably won't be friending the guys from Pied Piper any time soon. (25 words)
A quick look at the events tab on Bendición’s website shows upcoming events including “Sober Speed Friending,” a queer Tarot workshop, a “sober(ish)” book club, and a monthly acoustic variety show. (33 words)
This Speed Friending event was held on April 12th in the Hawk Dining Hall, and those who signed up for the event in advance received a free meal swipe. (29 words)
After Sunday's season 5 premiere of the HBO show, Mark Zuckerberg probably won't be friending the guys from Pied Piper any time soon. (25 words)
Example sentences (5)
This Speed Friending event was held on April 12th in the Hawk Dining Hall, and those who signed up for the event in advance received a free meal swipe.
A quick look at the events tab on Bendición’s website shows upcoming events including “Sober Speed Friending,” a queer Tarot workshop, a “sober(ish)” book club, and a monthly acoustic variety show.
Before friending or accepting anyone’s follow request, it is necessary to actually know who they are.
Join Facebook and start friending.
After Sunday's season 5 premiere of the HBO show, Mark Zuckerberg probably won't be friending the guys from Pied Piper any time soon.
Common combinations with friending
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: