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Example sentences for: befriends

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

"Steve Forbes befriends a crippled child, predicts this Christmas will be 'the best ever.
He befriends a cocaine user doing hard time, then sermonizes about the idiocies of mandatory minimum sentences.
Critics call this film spinoff of the 1960s TV show about a Martian (Christopher Lloyd) who falls to Earth and befriends an earthling (Jeff Daniels) "loud and labored" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). The film steamrollers viewers with a frenetic pace and loads of slapsticky special effects.
Almost everyone lavishes praise on the book, not minding the absurdities they find in the plot (such as the emergence of a 92-year-old trillionaire who befriends the brooding man).
"If I told you their names," says Sydney Pollack, playing a mysterious magnate who befriends Harford, "I don't think you'd sleep so well."