palled; palling
: to be or become pals : associate as pals
they've palled around for years
Examples of pal in a Sentence
Noun
We've been pals since we were kids.
Come on—be a pal and lend me the money.
Verb
they began to pal around after discovering that they both had kids on the same soccer team
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Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
But the two warmly chatted like pals whose friendship goes back a long way.
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Noun
Trump pals Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen will be among its most powerful new owners.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
But the two warmly chatted like pals whose friendship goes back a long way.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
In other good competition news, Molly Odintz’s old high school pal Jimmy Talarico is running for Texas Senate, on a workers’ rights platform.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
How leaders leverage friendship in their professional lives Welch isn’t the only business leader who leans on their pals to enrich their careers.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pal
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“Pal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pal. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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pal
1 of 2 noun
: a close friend
pal
2 of 2 verb
palled; palling
: to be or become pals
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