be friends
Example Sentences
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How do professional athletes manage to be friends while competing for the sport's biggest prizes?
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
"Maybe you'd be friends if you just talked."
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
Both women would prefer to be friends: a tale as old as time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
The court heard in bodyworn footage, the woman can be heard telling officers: "It was like jealousy, controlling of like who I can be friends with."
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026
Nobody wants to be friends with a kid whose mother is a criminal.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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