befriend
Example Sentences
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They were, he recalled in “Making It,” “brave, proud, and unstintingly loyal once they had decided to befriend you.”
He befriended the Clash on a tour of London and sat in on the band’s sessions recording their epochal “London Calling” LP.
From Los Angeles Times
The FBI thought the lead was promising enough to launch an undercover investigation, people familiar with it said, with a covert agent befriending the woman’s significant other to elicit new clues.
He also suggested that library security befriend and train nearby retailers to report any suspicious activity, especially involving art.
And there are also the women she befriended in detention.
From Los Angeles Times
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