How to Use make friends in a Sentence

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• My mom told me to speak up and to make friends.
  — Elise Devlin, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• Don’t let your pet try to make friends with it.
  — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
• Nobody was there to make friends.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
• But agents have to make friends—and money.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Some of them come alone and make friends in line, while some of them are in friend groups.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
• Starting to make friends outside of the field, too.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
• Natalie is not here to make friends.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
• Miguel is more apt to make friends with an opponent than fight them.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• Who said animals have to be part of the same species to make friends!
  — USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps one of the most natural places to make friends as an adult is at work.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 15 Aug. 2023
• The office is, after all, a pretty great place to make friends.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
• Their businesses now help people make friends, and keep them.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Amy Schumer isn't here to make friends in her Netflix special.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• This intrepid empire builder is married to the pastor, and not here to make friends.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
• Don’t be shy about talking through her efforts to make friends and establish her life.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Some of them treat them kind of like servants, some of them are very respectful, and some of them make friends.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• After the sun goes down, head to the communal lakeside fire pit to make friends and roast s'mores.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• His press-conference persona is not designed to make friends.
  — James McNicholas, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
• But why was Ducky Pop so eager to make friends with Mister?
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
• Learn to sail and make friends at the village dock just down the road or at the Checkmate Inn bar.
  — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2025
• Look around and make friends in school, in the neighborhood and in the community.
  — Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
• Or, sign up for a new activity or attend an event with your partner and try to make friends that way.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 9 Feb. 2026
• This is, perhaps, not the best way to make friends and influence Justices.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
• Just help out, talk to people, make friends and learn about the inner workings of a film festival as an event.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Friends described Xana as someone who could make friends with anyone and who had the best taste in music.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 11 July 2025
• It’s also considered one of the hardest places to make friends and settle in as an expat.
  — Chloé Skye Weiser, Contributor, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
• Every person there wanted to make friends with each other, no judgement and was happy to help you.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
• But one thing Charlotte had plenty of then and now is newcomers who are trying to make friends just like you.
  — Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025
• Good Housekeeping Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
  — Juliana Labianca, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2022
• The idea came from Murthy’s own experience trying to make friends in her 20s.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023