befriend
Example Sentences
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Hoping to reinvigorate Stewart’s career with a newspaper profile, Mr. McDonough eventually befriended the singer.
When my colleague Malia Mendez went to an event recently, people told her that attending Junk Journal Club “has made befriending strangers easy,” and many of them stay in touch.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite the risks, Lucas begins carrying coded notes for Madame Garnier and befriends one of the young mothers, Claire, and her baby boy, at the maternity home.
She had heard that we had befriended a man on this street.
From Literature
“They befriend you and say all the right things to get to you,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
