be friends with
Example Sentences
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The court heard in bodyworn footage, the woman can be heard telling officers: "It was like jealousy, controlling of like who I can be friends with."
From BBC • Jan. 22, 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
“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
And if at the beginning of the summer someone had said I’d be friends with my nemesis, I’d have said there was a greater chance that Earth would be swallowed by a black hole.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
