Examples of befriend in a Sentence
He befriended the new student.
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The personable presenter not only got on with people but managed to befriend a family of gorillas in the forests of Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains.
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Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
The road movie, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at CAnnes in 2025, stars Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla as two fiftysomething men from Italy’s northern Veneto area who befriend a timid student from Naples, played by Filippo Scotti.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Marie befriends the women in the community, gaining their trust, only to find out that another man, Samuel Bateman, is claiming to be a prophet.
—Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
There was evidence that the two men, who’d befriended Brettler weeks earlier, had assaulted him shortly before his death – though neither was charged by police, who concluded that the death was probably suicide.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
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Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
The road movie, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at CAnnes in 2025, stars Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla as two fiftysomething men from Italy’s northern Veneto area who befriend a timid student from Naples, played by Filippo Scotti.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Marie befriends the women in the community, gaining their trust, only to find out that another man, Samuel Bateman, is claiming to be a prophet.
—Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
There was evidence that the two men, who’d befriended Brettler weeks earlier, had assaulted him shortly before his death – though neither was charged by police, who concluded that the death was probably suicide.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for befriend
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befriend. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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befriend
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be·friend
bi-ˈfrend 
: to become or act as a friend to
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