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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John Hyatt, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Rudy Giuliani, after being booted from Gracie Mansion amid his marital troubles, crashed for six months with a Queens car-dealer pal and his partner in the couple’s 44th-floor, 3,000-square-foot apartment.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2025
Deborah winds up nailing her first episode (with a little help from her pal Randy Newman), and with that, Late Night With Deborah Vance is officially off and running!
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
But Hegseth didn’t actually deny sharing details of U.S. attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen with more than a dozen pals in an extraordinary breach of security protocol.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Musk’s chief of staff from 2014 until 2019, who hired Butterfield, Sam Teller joined Valor Equity Partners, the firm run by Musk’s billionaire pal and investor Antonio Gracias, and was a partner there for three and a half years.
—John Hyatt, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Rudy Giuliani, after being booted from Gracie Mansion amid his marital troubles, crashed for six months with a Queens car-dealer pal and his partner in the couple’s 44th-floor, 3,000-square-foot apartment.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2025
Deborah winds up nailing her first episode (with a little help from her pal Randy Newman), and with that, Late Night With Deborah Vance is officially off and running!
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
But Hegseth didn’t actually deny sharing details of U.S. attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen with more than a dozen pals in an extraordinary breach of security protocol.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Pal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pal. Accessed 1 May. 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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