best friend

Example Sentences

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In between bites of salmon nigiri, Scanlon began scrolling through apartment listings on her phone and came across a 1920s studio apartment in Los Feliz that she knew her best friend would swoon over.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Bird enthusiast and Sevidov's best friend, Vyacheslav Kaistro, did enlist.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

My best friend, Lucyann, lived across the street, and was a year younger.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The singer added that she hoped to return to acting in future, alongside continuing to make music, which she described as "a best friend" and "a saviour".

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Of course, they’d been full of tears nearly constantly since the fair, first because she’d found out her best friend was a terrible person and then because she’d found out that I’d died.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman