pal around with
phrasal verb
palled around with; palling around with; pals around with
informal, chiefly US
: to spend time with (someone) as a friend
She's been palling around with a girl she met at school.
Examples of pal around with in a Sentence
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In an era where too many politicians declare the press the enemy, someone who had palled around with a white supremacist group had gotten away with physically striking a reporter.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Sheldon Johnson, the ex-con who claimed to be a criminal justice reform activist and palled around with VIPs like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and podcaster Joe Rogan, pleaded not guilty to murder in a Bronx courtroom Tuesday before the judge ordered him held without bail.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
Depending upon your point of reference, most people know Terry Allen as the west Texas musician behind the conceptual outlaw country albums Juarez and Lubbock, or as the polymath multimedia artist who attended the Chouinard Art Institute and palled around with the Cool School.
—Michael Slenske, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
The absence of one Jennifer Shah, currently incarcerated and palling around with Liz Holmes, is barely felt now that Mary Cosby is back, in theory if not always in practice, and the other ladies are bickering at a drop of (Vida) tequila.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2023
Not since the Spice Girls palled around with Prince Charles in 1997 has a girl group of this magnitude visited with the now-King.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
As president, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were each criticized for palling around with donors on Martha’s Vineyard.
—Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
Gromit likes to pal around with other pups on set, too, Edebiri adds.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
Willie Jack has the most low-key day of them all, palling around with Fixico, the old man who hawks his folk medicine outside the clinic.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Sheldon Johnson, the ex-con who claimed to be a criminal justice reform activist and palled around with VIPs like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and podcaster Joe Rogan, pleaded not guilty to murder in a Bronx courtroom Tuesday before the judge ordered him held without bail.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
Depending upon your point of reference, most people know Terry Allen as the west Texas musician behind the conceptual outlaw country albums Juarez and Lubbock, or as the polymath multimedia artist who attended the Chouinard Art Institute and palled around with the Cool School.
—Michael Slenske, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
The absence of one Jennifer Shah, currently incarcerated and palling around with Liz Holmes, is barely felt now that Mary Cosby is back, in theory if not always in practice, and the other ladies are bickering at a drop of (Vida) tequila.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2023
Not since the Spice Girls palled around with Prince Charles in 1997 has a girl group of this magnitude visited with the now-King.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
As president, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were each criticized for palling around with donors on Martha’s Vineyard.
—Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
Gromit likes to pal around with other pups on set, too, Edebiri adds.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
Willie Jack has the most low-key day of them all, palling around with Fixico, the old man who hawks his folk medicine outside the clinic.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
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