How To Use Friend In A Sentence

  • The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
  • My girlfriend wants me to go to the basketball court.
  • We love our king, we just don't love the way he abuses our money," a Swazi friend once explained to me. How long can Swaziland resist reform?
  • I just stayed the dorm to around and shoot the breeze with a couple of friends.
  • I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
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  • Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
  • 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'
  • My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
  • The friend had also overheard the man say he had disposed of the handgun used in the crime, according to the in - formant. Just A 'Random' Crime
  • Another friend notes a shift in the type of gifts given at wedding showers, a reversion to 1950s-style offerings: soup ladles and frilly aprons are being unwrapped along with see-through nighties and push-up bras.
  • I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
  • Her boyfriend was watching in the audience as well which made it even naughtier. The Sun
  • Any calls from the press or from friends were being taken on other lines by one of Andrew McClintock's secretaries. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • If the children's parents don't choose to be adults, then the OP's friend is going to have to be an adult.
  • Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work. The Sun
  • He walked out and claims he then saw his 26-year-old girlfriend being manhandled.
  • The Etihad chief has taken charge of just two friendlies and still does not have all his squad together. The Sun
  • The art world can be a profoundly unfriendly and unbalanced place. Times, Sunday Times
  • The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
  • Others suggested that the friendship might have soured in the middle of last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The money is commonly laundered via cash deposits to friends or family members' bank accounts and is quickly withdrawn to be paid to the gang leaders. Times, Sunday Times
  • They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart.
  • Your daughter may indeed welcome your new friend but tread carefully. The Sun
  • We truly are much more team oriented and friendlike to our children than parents have tended to be in the past, in large part because we too identify with many of the peer and academic pressures that kids now face. Childhood Unbound
  • She had a friend in the press bureau.
  • He always insisted that it was a girlfriend's idea: he had been planning to become a tiler.
  • Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier.
  • Richard got legal advice from a friend at the gym.
  • Referring to some of the songs of that year, it complained that ‘some fellow gets shot, and his baby and his best friend both die with him, and some cat's crying or ready to die’.
  • This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
  • Those who have it make the best friends, the best leaders, the best models to follow.
  • Familiar paths and old friends are the best. 
  • Another friend showed his great sense of humor in dealing with the obvious statements.
  • Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
  • He had been standing in the turret of a tank with his friend when the tank was hit. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
  • When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
  • Doubtless his friends and family were working on his behalf and might well be involved with Peggy Say's campaign.
  • He was a true person and he inspired love in his friends. Times, Sunday Times
  • I also happen to have some agelessly lovely friends. Michele Willens: Face It: We Are All 'Hot' Somewhere
  • Friendship the older it grows the stronger it is. 
  • New antioxidants include ferulic acid, idebenone, ubiquinone coenzyme Q10, alpha lipoic acid, and resveratrol and are already making their way into our friendly neighborhood counters. You Being Beautiful
  • Here is nobly born quartz living with a green mineral, called epidote; and they are immense friends. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
  • Mary has packed her boyfriend in.
  • As for you, the membership, many of you have offered an ear to listen, time to reflect, and many hours of friendship and support.
  • Urging fellow MPs to buy ozone-friendly products, she said failure to do so would leave the world without an ozone layer. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
  • The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
  • I think that he is her boyfriend
  • MY boyfriend won't come to bed until the house is spotless. The Sun
  • I am afraid to lose, I fear this time, and I love it but memories. I could not forget the sweat on the pitch with the sway of the brothers, forget accompany me cry close friend, and forget the bright Star of that everynight, and those words have touched me deeply.
  • She wants to buy her friend the very best present in the whole wide world.
  • Thence in comparison to pricey couches, hammocks are more user-friendly.
  • Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • The theme of this year's event was peace and friendship between China and Japan.
  • i saw mai friend donnies ex bf. hez a sweet guy! then tyler had to talk 2 me and wuz like "i like you" ... i wuz kinda in shock ya kno?!? Zingerbabai Diary Entry
  • As soon as he became rich he cast aside all his old friends who gave him some help.
  • Don't be friends with bad boys. People think that birds of a feather flock together.
  • Her schemes backfired on herself,and she lost her boyfriend forever.
  • The Zambia soccer squad winds up its camping in South Africa with a friendly game against Orlando Pirates in Johannesburg today.
  • Brian will be sadly missed by his family and close friends.
  • Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends
  • Some of his more drunken friends burst into song.
  • A doctor with whom you have a good, communicative and friendly relationship is a rare beast.
  • When Carol Thatcher returns to these shores from the jungle she may well be rather surprised to find her ‘good friend’ Linda McDougall quoted in most of the papers. Carol & Linda to Heal the Rift?
  • Nobody, not even the young actress girlfriend of the main detective, is dressed to impress. Tin Boxes
  • I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
  • Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing. 
  • Why don't you fetch your new boyfriend round one evening? We'd like to meet him.
  • Most of us tend to entertain our friends in the family room; a formal dining room becomes a mail sorting place, and a formal living room is a museum for curios and uncomfortable furniture.
  • In spite of the run-down facilities, the ma-and-pop owners and the friendliest and most approachable people in Hong Kong.
  • Similarly, a firm may value worker characteristics that are unobservable to employment agencies but quite observable to family and friends.
  • Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there? PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
  • I know that they were introduced by mutual friends.
  • Truly, Ranald, my trusty friend," said Dalgetty, "I will not deny that the case may be soon my own; for I am so forfoughen (being, as A Legend of Montrose
  • He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend.
  • Be happy, be cheerful.It's time to celebrate.My friend was born today.Hope your course is charted for lots of luck all the year through.
  • This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
  • Meanwhile, I will be having a final farewell party this Friday with all my buddies, climbing friends, old coworkers, old classmates and random strangers.
  • The procession followed a private ceremony, attended by about 200 family and friends.
  • An unlikely medley of five friends, one of them is now a star, the other a businessman, the third a pilot while the remaining two are in the software industry.
  • He took with him messages of support from Andy's family and friends, who remain convinced of his innocence.
  • What's more worrying is that my boyfriend wants a man. The Sun
  • Meanwhile, Angela Brockway and other members of the reading group are struggling to carry on without their friend: There were about 14 of us who all used to sit round her big Victorian table in her conservatory with mugs of tea and coffee and piles of what we called 'posh' biscuits. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • Never gloat over the ruin of your friend.
  • A split from his long-time girlfriend shortly after only served to drive him further into the darkness. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the market is the pursuit of friendship, mutual tired, I finally left.
  • Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
  • I'll also ask my good friend who's a '' Germanist ''. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Sometimes she was housed by friends and sometimes she slept rough in fields and public parks. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
  • That, and his extraordinary capacity for self-sacrificing friendship, loyalty and sweet-natured nannying, have been his quadruple of acclaimed lifetime's high-lights.
  • He stole my girlfriend.
  • It was simply a relationship I had with a friend who was an experienced magician, regular chats and conversation with someone who was a good friend.
  • Friends pointed to his comments at the weekend in which he refuted claims that he had sold his yacht. Times, Sunday Times
  • You are the bestest friend in the whole world, have I ever told you that?
  • Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 
  • Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
  • And she would tell us wondrous stories of her youth, of the lands she had seen, and the darbar s of the olden days; of kings who were gods, and women whose friendship was victorious over every accident. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson 
  • In my job one tends to lose touch with friends.
  • The artist uncrated it on a broad gallery that opened off the dining room, apparently for the admiration of friends and family.
  • I've followed this story from the time Blaise and her boyfriend went galavanting around Marseilles, when you and your husband were desperately trying to find them both and fearing the worst. Une plaie - French Word-A-Day
  • This friend is rather temperamental and I don't know how they'll react.
  • She was unhappy there, but loath to leave the security of a job and new friends. Times, Sunday Times
  • A friend of the singer said: ‘She was thrilled because a year ago she was being written off and people were saying her career was heading for the dumper.’
  • On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
  • Officers had been shown a dirty white T-shirt which he said he had worn on the day his girlfriend vanished.
  • In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
  • Rachel and a friend of hers were standing at the end of the parking lot, and hearing them yell my name perked me up enough to make it to the track itself. From the Mind of the Dawnie
  • But sure, they could be more "anti-consumerist" by having a druidical gathering of eight friends in the middle of the forest and a picnic lunch. Love on a farmboy's wages
  • These are the best days of training - with good friends and without a care in the world.
  • Pat spent that evening and night with long-lost friends and had the time of his life.
  • Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends!
  • The passalong plants are great–what wonderful gifts from your friend. Wildflowers Of May* « Fairegarden
  • His closest friends had no time for biblical Christianity, his church attendance lapsed, and his work became increasingly secular, including writing for the theatre.
  • The mark of every successful entrepreneur is his or her willingness to borrow from family and friends.
  • Sometimes the boyfriends cops it, but that's usually because its his fault.
  • If the compound is pluralized, the plural morpheme attaches only to the second element, not to the first, or to both: girl-friends, * girls-friends, * girls-friend.
  • I will be thy friend, but not thy vice’s friend
  • The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering.
  • He was a man's man, a woman's dreamboat and a good friend.
  • I based myself at Ibsen's, an art-filled eco-friendly hotel on fashionable Nansensgade, an easy walk from the city center and after viewing artwork at the National Gallery of Denmark, I lunched at Aamann's, specializing in a modern take on the traditional open-faced Danish sandwich called the smorrebrod. Jill Fergus: Copenhagen Dining Beyond Noma
  • So put those dates in your diary or pass them on to friends or relatives who visit at that time.
  • As time proceeds she acquires a group of racially and ethnically mixed friends and acts with courage and self-reliance.
  • They become like a friend for the extent of the show. Times, Sunday Times
  • The four friends are squealing with excitement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Paul Brown Stadium opened in 2000 after years of friendly persuasion and arm-twisting.
  • And when he and his wife, Toni, go boating with friends, Andreas sticks to his dress code.
  • At that moment the sop is given; offer of friendship is once more made -- and how affectingly! Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Fraudsters are often shopped by honest friends and neighbours.
  • They can take us back to the warm, rich fellowship of friends that are far away.
  • `Yeah... me... me friend Mr Ilochina, him don buy ` im own house. GWENDOLEN
  • Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
  • In a gesture of friendship, the president invited his former enemies to a reception.
  • We also befriended a local compost supplier, a music producer and a writer. Times, Sunday Times
  • True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not.
  • See it once and it will haunt your memory with the pleasant familiarity of an old friend.
  • The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison 
  • Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
  • Of course, her boyfriend is indie royalty, but her sheer ubiquity denies her indie status. Times, Sunday Times
  • Liadan questions her boyfriend as she shifts the picture around the page of her scrapbook.
  • Friends and colleagues expressed astonishment last night as the news broke.
  • But, just in case you get the idea that all was pretence and subterfuge, I feel I should let you know just how the mother of a friend of mine described the communist years.
  • An inquest heard that the fire started after friends of Mr Wright lit candles in his flat while he had gone out drinking with a friend.
  • Sir – My 14-year-old son witnessed an incident in Ipswich on Friday evening in which a friend was assaulted and injured. Oh Dear! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
  • spoke a good word in his friend's behalf
  • I got my boyfriend to come and see and we saw them move fast past the front of our house and out of sight.
  • No doubt if I'd been friendlier to you in the past you'd have responded differently. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The twitters of agreement amongst her friends drowned out Raven's plea of, ‘He's not mine…‘
  • The lawyer-turned-playwright's "true story" of her friendship with a convicted "homegrown" terrorist does suffer from an unfortunate Pollyannaism, however. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film.
  • From the estate car debouched my girlfriend.
  • The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison 
  • Photos Simon Baker/Reuters A woman, whose friend was missing in the fire-damaged CTV building looked on as firemen and search teams looked through the rubble for survivors in central Christchurch Wednesday. New Zealand Starts Christchurch Curfew
  • Ask a friend to recommend a doctor or, failing that, ask for a list in your local library.
  • Munro was presented with the Order of the Forest Award for her involvement in a modern movement towards books printed only on forest-friendly paper.
  • There was also good opportunity to meet brethren from other churches and to renew fellowship with friends.
  • The hotel offers a friendly atmosphere and personal service.
  • And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Your Honours, apropos of what our learned friend said about the Justice's judgment, in our submission, it highlights the error.
  • Developers, well those that meet Apple's firm and unfriendly terms and conditions, have helped this by creating 5,000 new applications for the handheld gogglebox, meaning that it's big numbers all round at Apple - particularly we imagine in the App Store and Ibook store accounting departments. The Inquirer
  • In the evenings, she plays outside with her friends.
  • She has sunk into the background in the past two weeks - friends say that she has had enough of the stress and has decided to no longer face the public gaze.
  • His friends busted him out of jail.
  • My largest contributor was my friend Anne Bartley, Governor Winthrop Rockefellers stepdaughter, who later ran the Arkansas office in Washington, D.C., when I was governor.
  • A good book is your best friend
  • His gruff manner always belied a kindness in him that all his close friends knew he had.
  • Old friends greet each other across the room. Times, Sunday Times
  • Coalitionism was not then only a political creed, but also a web of friendships and habits that underpinned political cooperation.
  • Not all the speakers have couched their sentiments in complimentary language, indeed, it is a fact which we citizens of the Empire would be foolish to ignore that important sections of opinion among our American friends and elsewhere are rather suspicious of the British Empire. The Empire In These Days
  • And that, my friends, is what I call magical thinking. Archive 2008-10-01
  • The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
  • When Wood returned to the truck parked on Panorama Drive, her bike was gone along with two others belonging to friends visiting from Washing-ton state.
  • True to form, most bodyboarders know their sport is an underdog and they tend to buy products from companies that support bodyboarding, like No Friends and ebodyboarding. com. Robbie Gennet: Every Break Will Change
  • Leo and his friends also took the spinthariscope to an out-of-town astronomers convention and advertised that they had developed an optical system that could penetrate clouds.
  • I've had some luck getting laid with AdultFriendFinder (it sounds so much sketchier than it actually is, I promise), but if that's not what you're looking for, then stay away. Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
  • This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant entry to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers. HomeToys News
  • If you are more concerned about the quality of the food and drink than about socializing with your friends, decline the invitation and go out to a restaurant instead.
  • She is slumped on a bed in a cubicle, with a fair number of friends and family milling around her. Times, Sunday Times
  • It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
  • But when she was questioned later, she said she believed they were referring to the Friday night and not the Saturday night when her friend was glassed.
  • Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
  • A life without a friend is a life without a sun. 
  • Frequent cultural exchange will certainly help foster friendly relations between our two universities.
  • They had tiffed occasionally, and broken off the friendship, and once I believe returned letters. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
  • It would seek to develop friendly relations amongst all nations
  • Is showing love, or even friendship, with the sinner a sign of condoning the sin?
  • After the famous New York trial of her boyfriend and pimp Mickey Jelke, "the oleo-margarine heir," the former call girl Pat Ward had quietly married an osteopath and they lived in Hollywood, Florida. An Interview with Gail Godwin about her novel Queen of the Underworld, and her memoir The Making of a Writer, both published in early 2006.
  • Tough as steel in his adherence to principle, resilient, placable, self-less and generous beyond the dictates of fashion, steadfast in friendship, but not at the price of reason, he strides the world of mathematics a happy warrior.
  • ‘He was very serious in his white surplice and black soutane,’ recalled one former friend.
  • It is entirely possible to drink any wine with any dish, and anyone who says otherwise is talking bunkum; a respected gastro-bore friend of mine likes to drink white burgundy with stewed lamb, as he finds it brings out the texture of the meat.
  • He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
  • In small ways that sometimes seem ineffectual, my friends and I are looking to experience some foretaste of that moment. Christianity Today
  • Yes, the wave of the future is here my friends, and it's sure to bring on a new era of gaming for us all.
  • I guess his girlfriend has given him the gate.
  • And if some heartless creep makes rude remarks that hurt your friend, you are not responsible for his actions.
  • She says they're, quote 'just good friends' unquote.
  • There were about 35 of us there, lots of friendly people, some gorgeous food, plentiful vino and lots of cheesy dancing!
  • His name was James and he was younger than me...perhaps by a year. *cue cradle-snatching jokes* He was my friend's cousin, and I remember thinking he was gorgeous when I first met him. Archive 2010-07-01

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