be friends with

“We weren’t really allowed to be friends with one another, and we certainly weren’t allowed to confide in one another,” she said.

“Anyway,” Bagley added, “I've never had it before or since. And that was really fun the way that they introduced my character: I'm responsible for giving them both explosive diarrhea. And how could that possibly work out in any way for anybody to be friends with me?”

I was curious and didn’t want to lose my sleepover buddy, so we agreed to be friends with benefits.

Trevor bemoaned how I could possibly want to be friends with them and how badly they felt for hurting me, saying they just couldn’t help hurting people all the time.

They responded, “At this point, I do not think we would make good friends and I don’t want to be friends with you.”