befriended

Example Sentences

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They befriended the Beatles before the foursome got huge.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

After 2002, Orbán befriended Árpád Habony, a martial arts instructor and businessman, as his personal guru.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

He also befriended a Ukrainian worker named Nadja—whom he remembered wistfully, even late in life, decades after he last saw her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1777, befriended Hamilton, and served as his top Treasury assistant.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

In the boxcar, Shin befriended a young man of about twenty who said he was headed home to Gilju, a city of sixty-five thousand people on the main rail line to Chongjin.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden