befriend
Example Sentences
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As an adult I acquired a different doppelgänger, not a famous actor but a fellow opinion journalist whom I happened to befriend after moving to New York in the mid-1990s.
He befriended the region’s most powerful royals, including Prince Mohammed, who in 2015 pledged to invest $10 billion in Russia’s economy.
They were, he recalled in “Making It,” “brave, proud, and unstintingly loyal once they had decided to befriend you.”
He befriended the Clash on a tour of London and sat in on the band’s sessions recording their epochal “London Calling” LP.
From Los Angeles Times
The FBI thought the lead was promising enough to launch an undercover investigation, people familiar with it said, with a covert agent befriending the woman’s significant other to elicit new clues.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
