be friends

Example Sentences

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I like Scott — I think we’d be friends if we talked to each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

"Reach out to people, it makes such a difference to know people and be friends with people with endometriosis."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Both women would prefer to be friends: a tale as old as time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“You can be friends with people in the government,” she says, “but you remember, and they remember, that the paper comes first.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

“Khalid heard me say that, and he heard Sandy, too. So that night, he told me I shouldn’t be friends with Sandy anymore.”

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender