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Example Sentences

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My dear close friend, that is a beautiful thing.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Labour Deputy Leader Lucy Powell, a close friend of Burnham, will make her support for him clear on Friday.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

When a close friend quits, they go down 36 percent.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Venegas’ close friend and protégé, Natalia Lafourcade, also appears in the duet “Tengo Que Contarte.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Smith decided that if he couldn’t have Woolf, he wanted a rough-and-tumble, freckle-faced western rider named Noel “Spec” Richardson, a close friend of Pollard and Woolf.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand