befriend
Example Sentences
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"Pat coached, befriended and mentored countless students throughout the years and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone anywhere who has an unkind word to say about him," his family wrote.
From BBC
Stick with me... the real drama comes as Eriko befriends a blogger she follows on social media, but things soon become sour as her longing for companionship turns to obsession.
From BBC
As an adult I acquired a different doppelgänger, not a famous actor but a fellow opinion journalist whom I happened to befriend after moving to New York in the mid-1990s.
He befriended the region’s most powerful royals, including Prince Mohammed, who in 2015 pledged to invest $10 billion in Russia’s economy.
They were, he recalled in “Making It,” “brave, proud, and unstintingly loyal once they had decided to befriend you.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
