Examples of befriend in a Sentence
He befriended the new student.
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Kelley makes a play for Göring’s trust by befriending his wife and daughter and carrying letters to them, against all regulations.
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Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Nurses who had befriended the musician and his wife were sending videos to Cimorelli where Gilbert was waving with his left hand.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2026
There, the University of Texas graduate first met and befriended Nicholas Hope Wilkinson, who cast her in one of his plays.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla star as two fifty-something men from Italy’s northern Veneto area who befriend a timid student from Naples, played by Filippo Scotti.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
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Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Nurses who had befriended the musician and his wife were sending videos to Cimorelli where Gilbert was waving with his left hand.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2026
There, the University of Texas graduate first met and befriended Nicholas Hope Wilkinson, who cast her in one of his plays.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla star as two fifty-something men from Italy’s northern Veneto area who befriend a timid student from Naples, played by Filippo Scotti.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befriend. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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befriend
verb
be·friend
bi-ˈfrend 
: to become or act as a friend to
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