be friends with
Example Sentences
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“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
“I wanted to be friends with Tilly,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025
We don’t have to be friends with everyone.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 27, 2025
F1 driver Lando Norris says it's "tricky, but certainly not impossible" to be friends with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
“Friends? We can’t be friends with her. You know that, Diana.”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
