befriend
Example Sentences
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After befriending one of Smith's managers Ellis made a request: "Can you get me five minutes with Will, but just me and him? I don't want the cameras."
From BBC
An Army captain, he first befriended the late Hugo Chávez on a baseball team during their days in the military academy.
He studied at the University of Kansas and eventually became a drama critic in St. Louis, where he befriended Tennessee Williams.
He befriended Welsh leader Alex Carlile, who sent him a headed fax, giving Jones the chance to steal the insignia and forge a letter in his name offering him a job.
From BBC
"Pat coached, befriended and mentored countless students throughout the years and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone anywhere who has an unkind word to say about him," his family wrote.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
