Example sentences for: befriended

How can you use “befriended” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After a few days, befriended and coached by these veterans of a different time and a different kind of war, most of us revived enough to make do behind the barbed wire in the blighted landscape.

  • The most famous example: In the '60s, Mossad agent Eli Cohen befriended Syrian President Amin al-Hafez and was nearly named Syria's defense minister.

  • Unlike most of the writers he befriended, Keats was of humble origin (his father managed an inn and a stable).

  • Nora and Eugene Lum, a Hawaiian couple, raised tons of money from Asian-Americans for the Democratic Party, befriended Ron Brown and other party bigwigs, used these political ties to buy an Oklahoma gas company, and earned a $9 million profit on the deal without lifting a finger.

  • In broad outline, it echoes Great Expectations , Dickens' story of Pip the waif who is befriended by Magwitch the convict, though Carey's book is also partly a reflection on how Dickens' novel came to be written.


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