How To Use Befriend In A Sentence

Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
I befriended a couple of the kids, and together we built a raft that we would row down the Dodder as far as the great waterfall in Donnybrook.
We also befriended a local compost supplier, a music producer and a writer. Times, Sunday Times
She befriends her neighbours, wears a hijab and goes to the mosque. Times, Sunday Times
At the end of the time he was out of money but was befriended by the captain of a luxury tourist canal barge who offered him a two month job as a deckhand.

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Rather get your staff to "befriend" their feelings by helping them articulate and share what they are experiencing. Dr. Hendrie Weisinger: The Emotionally Intelligent Manager--Be One!
Ashmole was fascinated by magic, alchemy and astrology, and befriended many astrologers regardless of political allegiance.
On the bus I befriend a punky little Quebecois.
In the same manner he befriended two other countries through which they passed on their way. Fairy Tales
She suddenly felt that even in knowing James, and in befriending him, that she was betraying Khalid's memory.
On stage at the concert hall is Roland, the quiet and intense orchestra leader, who is befriended by local musician and The Who fanatic, Alex.
He had learned that it was not to befriend his subordinates, nor to compete with or dominate them.
I have tried to befriend the two resident crocodiles, whom I have named "Smiles" and "Blur. Animal Planet: July 2008
Not the best way to befriend your new neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
He retired from the police in 2013 and become a criminology lecturer at a university where he befriended the vulnerable woman. The Sun
Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.
After his family moved from a home close to Parkhead to a flat near Ibrox, Dalglish befriended a young Rangers player called Alex Miller and it was not unknown for him to skive off school in order to hang around the club before cadging favours from a senior pro. Kenny Dalglish expects respect but no free ride from Sir Alex Ferguson
When she befriended Fleta he had been more impressed, for Fleta was exceedingly choosey about her as - sociations. Here There Are Monsters
He also befriends a few of his fellow tourists. The Times Literary Supplement
Robin stars as a disabled janitor who befriends a young boy.
For several years, I was a registered child-befriender who gave a young boy a dependable non-violent male role model he did not otherwise have. False Allegation Worse Than Rape?
Abu, an African tribesman, befriends Harry after saving him from certain death and speaks perfect English.
It is a classic tale of good and evil with an orphan hero, a plucky girl to befriend him, dastardly villains, a bit of a twist and an element of magic.
Everyman is at-last forsaken by Beauty, and Power and Wealth, and all the other allegorical figures, and is left alone to face Desolation and the Judgment of Heaven, with only Good Deeds to befriend him. The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress
On New Year's Eve he meets their mother at a dinner party and subsequently befriends the family.
Perhaps some of them thought they befriended me for charity's sake, because I was a starved waif from the slums. The Promised Land
He had managed to befriend them all in Sadie's service, and proved to be an excellent source of fun.
They befriended me when I first arrived in London as a student.
Age UK also run a befriending service, providing companionship and conversation for the lonely elderly. The Sun
Captain Kirk befriends Jillian (Catherine Hicks), a cetacean specialist who works with the whales at the aquarium, and tries to get the whales from her. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1234
In my Art of Attention posts I will offer specific direction for your attention, which will help you "befriend" of all the ideas you hold dear that aren't serving you and let them go; yielding the most sought-after openings for your body, mind and heart. Elena Brower: Art of Attention: Your Invitation
Joan herself was a widow, and as an ex-nurse she befriended Stanley and began to care for him.
The boy reporter befriends them; he tricks them; sometimes he simply avoids them.
I observed that, as a raconteur, he held court in the Trinity faculty dining room, befriending administrators, liberal artists, science professors, waiters, and busboys equally.
He befriended like-minded young men and soon they were forming groups. Times, Sunday Times
For those who want it, a more permanent telephone befriender is found for weekly conversations. Times, Sunday Times
Hope befriended every stranger he met.
He befriends this young boy, who hopes to remain friends following their hospital stay.
Anu is initially treated as an outcast by the boys at the madrasa and is only befriended by Rokon, another outcast student who is viewed as something of a kook by his peers. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Oh to be fluent in the international language that enabled my younger son and husband to befriend villagers in rural Burma. Times, Sunday Times
Hines had befriended the girl after she joined the Lollypop Children's Theatre in order to overcome a stutter.
Befriend them, be nice to them, tell them their hair looks nice, crack the odd risqué joke, flirt with them a little.
He retired from the police in 2013 and become a criminology lecturer at a university where he befriended the vulnerable woman. The Sun
This has a twin aim of befriending and loving those who are confined to their home all day every day.
Torn between turning Henry in and befriending him, Carol chooses the latter - and tries to convince Henry to do ‘a job’ with her.
He also befriends a few of his fellow tourists. The Times Literary Supplement
He fell foul of the police at an early age, was befriended by a local bushranger, and at 15 was imprisoned for three years on horse stealing charges.
He retired from the police in 2013 and become a criminology lecturer at a university where he befriended the vulnerable woman. The Sun
Faith was one of the few people in the class willing to befriend a new freshman.
The helpline matches lonely older people with a volunteer befriender who calls once a week. Times, Sunday Times
Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving: Book summary
The Chairman of the Committee is from Alabama; the befriender is Bob Newhart. Three Trivia Questions « Climate Audit
Although Frederika was the wife of a Hessian general, she was adored by both sides and even befriended by Thomas Jefferson.
She befriends a seatmate who agrees to take the doll into the city (for reasons too boring to describe). Globe and Mail
I said as much and befriended Guy, whose musical tastes encompass a diverse medley of almost unlistenable music.
Hope befriended every stranger he met.
Its sponsor, a local arts patron named Clara Bates, befriended the teenager and installed him in her carriage house.
He takes it on himself to befriend the son of a rich shipbuilder introducing Jude Law and take over his idyllic playboy cultural lifestyle, in this gripping thriller that also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a rememberably obnoxious cultural toff. This Week’s MOVIEDROME | Obsessed With Film
I was really the first one to befriend her, and protected her from the other pirates.
Daniel befriended a girl on the way who had friends that would let him stay in their apartment.
Personally, I find Mexicans very easy to befriend, that is, develop friendly acquaintances. Political stability and other impressions
Gloria Bennet is well known for befriending lonely and homeless people in Devizes.
The suspected kidnaper posed as a hospital worker and befriended the baby's mother. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2006
He befriended like-minded young men and soon they were forming groups. Times, Sunday Times
Jurors heard the actor, now a nightclub party organiser, had befriended the young woman four months earlier. The Sun
Age UK also run a befriending service, providing companionship and conversation for the lonely elderly. The Sun
When a girl from the Bronx moves in next door and befriends her, Mooney's outlook changes.
Not the best way to befriend your new neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
You mean i can actually befriend illegal immigrants instead of making them perform in interspecies snuff films? SO HEARTWARMING YOU’LL PISS BLOOD
Sandra stayed at home, away from the taunts and jibes of her white schoolfellows, and illicitly befriended the children of the family's black nanny.
So they had this informant befriend me and tip me off that I was being monitored.
He befriends a survivor and teases from him a harrowing survival story. Times, Sunday Times
He has also been befriended by hundreds of wellwishers from India and Nepal. Times, Sunday Times
In response to rejection by his schoolfellows, Haru befriends a group of Chinese kids, the social outcast and the foreigner finding kinship in their shared oppression.
Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself.
An attorney befriended a woman and her three daughters who lived in his neighborhood. Christianity Today
He befriends a survivor and teases from him a harrowing survival story. Times, Sunday Times
He befriended this 48-year-old woman on the internet. The Sun
Faith was one of the few people in the class willing to befriend a new freshman.
Mr Erridge said Callum had befriended the local motorcycling community as he enjoyed riding on the back of his dad's bike.
The film's about an elderly woman and a young nurse who befriends her.
But gradually, he makes his way in a small Southern town where he gets a job as a mechanic, and befriends a young boy who is also an outsider.
I had not tasted a real ‘home-grown’ egg till I befriended a wholesome farming woman, whose Rhode Islands and Sussex bantams run freely around the adjoining fields.
Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld found him there in the last days of Prohibition, "an old-timer in the profession," pining for the lost days of glorious garnish: "He'll befriend the first man who seriously asks him for a brandy crusta. Consider the Trimmings
However, after exiling his enemies, and befriending the others, there will be no need for him as a leader, and therefore he will keep starting new wars so that the people keep thinking that they need him.
Occupation: Odd jobs doer; Bodily fluids donor; Dog befriender Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him.
He was a publicity hound who liked to befriend Hollywood stars. Times, Sunday Times
This episode focuses on one juvenile male chimp as he tries to befriend the dominant males in his troupe, with varying degrees of success. The Sun
Porsche's history antedates its sports cars and began when a struggling automotive engineer, Ferdinand Porsche, befriended a fringe politician, Adolf Hitler, at a road race in the 1920s.
Both Harriet and William strike the reader as somewhat eccentric, the sort of neighbors or colleagues one tolerates but befriends only warily.
Barrie makes it his mission to support the family and to befriend Peter.
This episode focuses on one juvenile male chimp as he tries to befriend the dominant males in his troupe, with varying degrees of success. The Sun
In a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one summer afternoon I befriend a little old retired Latin teacher.
Indeed, as Gould points out, the digital facsimiles of basic human activities "chatting," "befriending," even "poking" oftentimes seem poised to outmode the actual physical acts on which they were originally modeled! Harvard University Press Publicity Blog :
During a night out before a match, players befriended the woman in a bar. The Sun
We befriended each other when wolves were foraging around our Mesolithic camps for food, and our own ancestors quickly discovered that 'dogs' could help them track and hunt animals.
He has also been befriended by hundreds of wellwishers from India and Nepal. Times, Sunday Times
To combat this, the charity runs a buddy scheme, whereby volunteers befriend patients, offering support and companionship.
The story of a nun who befriends a man on death row never sentimentalises the issues, but is an unforgettable study of capital punishment's cynicism.
This woman had "befriended" the aunt in the months before her death. Top Posts Of The Week - The Consumerist
She befriends a fish and a dog and survives in the forest, but it is all a bit twee. Times, Sunday Times
After i explained how we were celebrating how their fellow Europeans went to the new land and "befriended" the natives (sarcasm), I went on to force them all into one of my family's thanksgiving rituals - everyone goes around the table and says one thing they are thankful for this year. Tryptophan
With a muttered oath of surprize, Conan caught up Albiona in one massive arm, and followed his unknown befriender. The Bloody Crown Of Conan
Women wrestled then befriended adultresses, men abducted brides, light-hearted capers segued into murder.
Just as your grandma isn't betraying her late husband by remarrying, you would not betray your granddad by befriending this new relative.
We are looking for ways to befriend our new neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
He also befriends a few of his fellow tourists. The Times Literary Supplement
I'm guessing that you don't know anyone yet, and the preppies won't be befriending you anytime soon, so why don't you sit at my table at lunch.
On a mission to win Mrs. Creswell over for Raymond, Archie befriends the elderly woman and the two become close pals.
It would continue to befriend foreign sailors in distress but would destroy any foreign ships that threatened its rulers or were violent.
Shortly after my arrival at the school, I was befriended by an older girl.
But things change when a woman beggar comes to the area and befriends him.
To learn more, Bradley befriended Senate sages, a role of protege he'd practiced as a "coachable" player. Bradley’S Shot
Her contract with Lucifer didn't force her to befriend those that were evil simply because they were devilish types.
He befriends Mary, and tells her how he found the precious papers.
Turkey's trade with the Gulf, with Russia, with its newly befriended neighbors simply outmatch the financial benefits of the strictly U.S. Turkey's Calculated Concern
In 2004, Mr Shin befriended an inmate who had escaped to China but who had been recaptured, and from him he learned about the world beyond the camp. Current Affairs
I immediately sensed the presence of a group I had befriended before.
Her character befriends an ageing screenwriter and learns a few lessons in classic Hollywood screwball romances. Times, Sunday Times
An attorney befriended a woman and her three daughters who lived in his neighborhood. Christianity Today
And it is to America's eternal disgrace that a country like Russia is on the right side of history on this matter while we pigheadedly pursue the path of befriending evil. Julia Gorin: USA: Proud Supporter of the Kosovo Piss Process
We are willing to befriend the weak and the poor.
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Jurors heard the actor, now a nightclub party organiser, had befriended the young woman four months earlier. The Sun
While others prefer to rely on the fear factor allied to constant transfer market wheeler-dealing, a few swear by befriending players. Alan Pardew bases Newcastle's storming start on strategy and slog
Caroline does not reciprocate his feelings, tolerating Noah at best, too concerned with her own family problems to befriend a troubled white boy.
During a night out before a match, players befriended the woman in a bar. The Sun
jailbird"; that girl whom Tunis Latham had befriended, had rescued from a situation which she could not think of now without a feeling of creeping horror. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod
The young Arthur befriended a waterman who took fresh water to the incoming ships.
So he visits and befriends the traumatised boy.
For befriending them at a cost to his own popularity?
Nearly every government contractor befriends and hires Pentagon employees and bends the rules wherever possible.
Guilt-ridden, Lou befriends Sally by handling the funeral arrangements and charming her with an expensive dinner.
They had befriended him in a hostel and soon took control of his money and dingy bedsit. The Sun
Alex becomes intensely infatuated with a female executive, while Victoria continues to befriend a classmate in crisis.
Tell me honestly, would you truly befriend your enemies after discovering their kid eloped with your child, and then made this whole chaotic catastrophe that led to their deaths?
Crisscrossing the state in a series of rented cars, the 56-year-old Mr. Singleton has spent the better part of five months visiting obscure county GOP chairmen, befriending tea-party activists, buttonholing lawmakers in the lobby of the state Capitol, and amassing a database of potential Palin supporters. Activist Stirs Palin Mystery in Iowa
She wanted his esteem, and when he asked her to "befriend" Wolff, she knew she was never going to get it, not really. The Key to Rebecca
On the other side I befriended this guy at work when I was only 16, he was 18 and was a Catholic.
The haulier said a fellow English prisoner who he befriended in the Greek jail was in his thoughts today.
The shuffling enigma, head occasionally cocked in bird-like inquisitiveness, befriends his fellow patients to mesmerising and medically undefinable effect.
The Iron Man is befriended by a young child and in the end, becomes a hero.
Sandra stayed at home, away from the taunts and jibes of her white schoolfellows, and illicitly befriended the children of the family's black nanny.
He tells little of his Jewish childhood, and once based in New York prefers namechecking the books he read to the women he befriended.
He was a publicity hound who liked to befriend Hollywood stars. Times, Sunday Times
She cruelly locked her stepson in an attic room, but her own son befriended him.
The artist Miguel Calderón, whom I befriended a year earlier, keeps a stash of canned beer near a speaker and scours the room to find me a date. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
“Were it possible,” cried he, “for fate to reconcile contradictions, and recall the irremediable current of events, I would now believe that there was happiness still in reserve for the forlorn Zelos, now that I tread the land of freedom and humanity, now that I find myself befriended by the most generous of men. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Even the fact that the heroine is an ex-actor and the Washington bigwig she befriends a thwarted thesp gives the whole affair a cosy patina of showbusiness.
I certainly will not argue against helping a kid, or befriending a kid.
It's fairly unusual for high school seniors to befriend freshmen.
Befriend an alley cat that could benefit from some catnip and a few rubs.
He has also been befriended by hundreds of wellwishers from India and Nepal. Times, Sunday Times
After being sold to a family that mistreats him, Oliver decides to strike out on his own and travels to London where he is befriended by a likeable pickpocket named the Artful Dodger.
He had a deep knowledge of the habits of all the local wildlife and an uncanny knack of befriending them.
Fortunately, their landlady, a retired schoolmistress, warmly welcomes and befriends them.
Then she befriends her family's prisoner, and he shows her that a kite can fly.
When she first met Blake she'd pitied him because he only had a few friends, so she had befriended him.
They ended up at the Lodging House, where he befriended theological students and dreamed of becoming a clergyman himself.
The three basic skills are attending to, befriending and surrendering to emotions that make us uncomfortable.
He befriended native birds; his favourite a bellbird he named Oscar.
He had learned that it was not to befriend his subordinates, nor to compete with or dominate them.
In one place she is spoken of as the great befriender of the broken and outcast. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
It's important to notice - become emotionally aware and acknowledge what you're feeling, and to ease and "befriend" the reaction by holding it in your heart, then letting the feeling ease out of your system. Doc Childre: Tips To Prevent Holiday Stress And Avoid Faking The Holiday Spirit
We are willing to befriend the weak and the poor.
They weren't cool or extremely popular, nor were they unpopular, and didn't go out of their way to befriend the socially inept outcast types.
Its sponsor, a local arts patron named Clara Bates, befriended the teenager and installed him in her carriage house.
He befriended this 48-year-old woman on the internet. The Sun
He fought for, and befriended, Grant, and was a brevetted brigadier general by the close of the war. CHASING the WHITE DOG
The web conmen also befriend players online and trick them into volunteering personal details which can be used to access accounts. The Sun
Stuck in the jungle, our hero befriends a peasant named Pacha and together they attempt to return to the palace in order to restore his human form.
The 35-year-old star, who is followed by shutterbugs everywhere she goes, has now befriended a group of photographers, who have told her ‘the rules’.
Raised by his grandmother, he befriended the Aarhus chapter of the Hell's Angels motorbike gang, is smothered in tattoos and has his nipples pierced.
For example, Dr. Mortimer, a man Holmes and Watson befriend and refer to as a fellow man of science, is an expert in phrenology. Archive 2007-07-01
They were the first lifestyler couple we befriended.
As a youngster I was befriended by a bargee who for many years travelled to York from the ports of Hull and Goole with a variety of cargoes.
She befriends her neighbours, wears a hijab and goes to the mosque. Times, Sunday Times
In a phenomenon called "triadic closure," people tend to befriend the friends of their friends -- and this is very satisfying. Gretchen Rubin: The Value of Connecting With Others for True Happiness
Turning to the bewildered old man, he continues: "to be called a knave, and upbraided in this manner by your daughter, when I have befriended you all these days! An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
We also befriended a local compost supplier, a music producer and a writer. Times, Sunday Times
Its sponsor, a local arts patron named Clara Bates, befriended the teenager and installed him in her carriage house.
Jurors heard the actor, now a nightclub party organiser, had befriended the young woman four months earlier. The Sun
We are looking for ways to befriend our new neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
Things actually become worse when Emily befriends an imaginary friend whose erratic behavior eventually turns murderous.
Nobody in his country dared to befriend him because of his important status.
Nearly every government contractor befriends and hires Pentagon employees and bends the rules wherever possible.
It went into the farmhouses where he lodged overnight and where he was known and befriended.
Age UK also run a befriending service, providing companionship and conversation for the lonely elderly. The Sun
And I will say here and now, with that first glimpse of the man, I was conscious of a new presence in my life, which was why I never doubted that I was taking my first covert reading of our freelance Africa consultant and Maxie's words again boss of the op, Philip or Philippe, fluent in French, Lingala, but not Swahili, architect of our conference, befriender of the Mwangaza and our delegates. The mission song
They had befriended the victims outside a bar in before walking them part-way home and robbing them in an alleyway off Kendal Road.
We are looking for ways to befriend our new neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
You enrolled your daughter in our schools, you volunteered with our organizations, you dined with us, golfed with us, befriended us. Emily Howald: A Final Favre Farewell
A gentle lesson awaits the ultrafocused Magnus when a boy befriends him and teaches him that even more important than measuring the "floppiest ears" or the "stinkiest socks" is the "snugness of a hand in a hand. Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News
After the circus troupers leave, clown-mime Manuel stays on, moving into a nearby shack, befriending Willem and teaching him magic and clown arts.
She never descended to self-pity but preserved in herself a sense of identity and personal dignity that made her so valuable to any whom she befriended.
We also befriended a local compost supplier, a music producer and a writer. Times, Sunday Times
They befriended the young girl, providing her with food and shelter.
She befriends her neighbours, wears a hijab and goes to the mosque. Times, Sunday Times
She befriends her neighbours, wears a hijab and goes to the mosque. Times, Sunday Times
On the day she finally decided to tell me about her own tattoos, Rosalina Malungana, the Swiss Mission-educated woman who, as we saw in chapter 3, reminisced so romantically about her common-law marriage to a Portuguese truck driver, acknowledged one source of conflict in their relationship that stemmed from Rosalina's desire to befriend her new non-Christian and nonliterate neighbors in Chibuto: Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

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