palled; palling
: to be or become pals : associate as pals
they've palled around for years
: the relation existing between pals : informal intimacy
Examples of pal in a Sentence
Noun (1)
We've been pals since we were kids.
Come on—be a pal and lend me the money.
Verb
they began to pal around after discovering that they both had kids on the same soccer team
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Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
From $840 Prince Karim Aga Khan IV built this villa in the early 1960s as a playground for his pals.
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Though Stinky Pete turns out to be a ne'er-do-well, Jessie is a valuable new pal who reveals her own trauma from being donated by her kid.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 June 2026
On the dusty backroads of Radiator Springs, where Lightning McQueen and his pals live, a shower of meteors threatened to bring destruction upon the quarter-size cars in a scene that disaster movie king Roland Emmerich would endorse.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
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Noun
Gomez shared a video taken prior to the ceremony in which Swift marvels at her pal.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
From $840 Prince Karim Aga Khan IV built this villa in the early 1960s as a playground for his pals.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 2026
Though Stinky Pete turns out to be a ne'er-do-well, Jessie is a valuable new pal who reveals her own trauma from being donated by her kid.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 June 2026
On the dusty backroads of Radiator Springs, where Lightning McQueen and his pals live, a shower of meteors threatened to bring destruction upon the quarter-size cars in a scene that disaster movie king Roland Emmerich would endorse.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
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“Pal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pal. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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pal
1 of 2 noun
: a close friend
pal
2 of 2 verb
palled; palling
: to be or become pals
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