How to Use family friend in a Sentence

family friend

noun

• Caleb didn’t deserve to die in the streets, the family friend said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
• And a trusted family friend might not have the skills for it.
  — Hannah Frances Johansson, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
• The groom is the eldest son of our closest family friend.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• The girl is a family friend of Murtagh’s, according to the report.
  — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• The girl was eventually able to reach a family friend, who picked her up and took her to her home.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
• The family friend heard her scream during the call and then lost contact with Russell.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• Stephen Marks, founder of French Connection, is a family friend of Collins.
  — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
• The couple tied the knot on June 2 at longtime family friend Oprah Winfrey's house.
  — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
• My mom’s twin sister Patty was the maid of honor and family friend Joe Ruszczyk was best man.
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• In the second image in the carousel, the Kendra alum could be seen cheesing it up at a restaurant with Alijah, Hank, and a family friend.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
• Breaking all ties with a family friend — one who helped make Ben’s famous around the country — would not seem to fit the pattern of Ali’s life.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• So Obaid turned to an oil consultant and old family friend to value the oilfield.
  — Hugo Miller, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• Bill Fuller -- the Yarborough's close family friend who helped get that memorial bench built for Sarah.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
• As the story goes, a family friend, Max Merkur, rediscovered the works in the 1970s, and Merkur’s children donated them to the gallery.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• Police said Warner, a mother of five, had last been seen by a family friend on the evening of April 24 and then by her husband the next morning.
  — Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• His wife, Cathy Merring-Regan, confirmed the news on Facebook in a post shared by a family friend.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
• McCasland, a real estate agent, had been a family friend of the Davises since 2002.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
• Late in the series, a family friend (Isabelle Adjani) suggests to Amelia that there’s a reason Greer seems to hate her so much.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
• The intimate setting feels like the ranch of a family friend, and that is exactly what the Palma’s are hoping to achieve.
  — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2023
• His son Dennis, who eventually took the reins, sold it in 2015 to family friend Thomas Tognetti.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2024
• Days after his brother Joe’s killing, a family friend’s 2-year-old daughter was shot and wounded in a drive-by.
  — Freep.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• At the time, the Spiderman actress hired her family friend, Claire Thomas, to decorate their new home.
  — Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• The twins moved with their mother from couch to car to storage unit before finding their way to a family friend who took them in while their mom went to rehab.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Dec. 2024
• The graying hair has been preserved in a locket that was given to a family friend and passed down the generations.
  — Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
• The car’s driver — a family friend who was also the boys’ nanny — was also injured.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
• Viet Dinh is a longtime family friend of the Murdochs, and is the godfather to one of Lachlan Murdoch’s sons.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• Many of my garlic lessons come from an old family friend, Yiorgos Stenos, a spry beekeeper in his 90s.
  — Diane Kochilas, Contributor, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• Beaupre, who was single, abandoned an accounting career to join the Marines in 1996, a family friend said.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
• By around noon on Monday, the mother noticed her 9-year-old son was not breathing, then called a family friend to take him to the hospital, according to the police chief.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
• Lynda Bennett, a family friend of Meadows, placed first but without enough votes to stop second-place winner Madison Cawthorn from asking for a runoff.
  — Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025