Examples of befriend in a Sentence
He befriended the new student.
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Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction.
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
Dogs did it at least 14,000 years ago, discovering that befriending garbage-producing humans resulted in tastier, more abundant scraps and less arduous lives on their own.
—Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
Utterback, who’d just gotten married and bought a house in Omaha, instead devoted himself to learning on his own, poring over books, making regular trips to Japan, and befriending masters of the craft.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
An Illinois native, Day moved to Minneapolis as a youth and befriended Prince in high school.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 8 June 2026
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
Dogs did it at least 14,000 years ago, discovering that befriending garbage-producing humans resulted in tastier, more abundant scraps and less arduous lives on their own.
—Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
Utterback, who’d just gotten married and bought a house in Omaha, instead devoted himself to learning on his own, poring over books, making regular trips to Japan, and befriending masters of the craft.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
An Illinois native, Day moved to Minneapolis as a youth and befriended Prince in high school.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 8 June 2026
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befriend. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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befriend
verb
be·friend
bi-ˈfrend 
: to become or act as a friend to
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