How to Use fraternize in a Sentence

fraternize

verb

• It is usually unwise to fraternize with your employees.
• Don’t fraternize with any of those bugs en route home except for the Hornet.
  — Houston Chronicle, 21 July 2019
• Bunnies, who lived in dorms on the property, could not fraternize with the guests and guests could not touch them.
  — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2019
• The biggest rule was that we weren't allowed to fraternize with the football players.
  — Anonymous, Cosmopolitan, 20 Nov. 2015
• And the players would go up there, fraternize with the owners and customers, and Buddy Parker did not want that.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
• He will still be permitted to walk onto the House floor and fraternize with members.
  — Kevin Freking The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
• Known to fraternize with people at the edge of the water, Old Ben often begged for food and was said to be recognizable by the white spot and bump on his head.
  — oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2021
• At the mountain camp, Maple fraternized with German prisoners of war and hatched an escape plan.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2017
• Tam is concerned a group her daughter had been fraternizing with may be involved.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 30 May 2017
• Ending the rule that says cheerleaders are not allowed to fraternize with players.
  — Molly Knight, Marie Claire, 1 May 2018
• The meeting was covert; fraternizing with the enemy was not allowed.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• For many in the West, the idea of generals and admirals fraternizing with chief executives and other elites is the stuff of nightmares.
  — Elisabeth Braw, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
• This was, in fact, the first time that a young, semiunderground, and, by all accounts, cool designer has ever stepped in front of a Bravo TV camera to fraternize with the Housewives.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2019
• And Hamas, like the Nazis, saw anyone fraternizing with Jews as Jews by association.
  — Leo Pearlman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
• In his unit, the officers aren’t saddled by rules against fraternizing with prisoners.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• At the Playboy Clubs, jackets were required in the dining room, and fraternizing with the bunnies was strictly prohibited.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• Last month’s unprecedented cease-fire by both sides had offered a rare glimpse of peace for Afghans during which militants fraternized with members of the security forces.
  — Rahim Faiez, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
• That’s a pretty damning critique, which must be in some way inspired by Strickland’s own experience with such institutions, where wealthy patrons get to fraternize with the artists.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• Hollywood A-listers followed the bulls in Spain and fraternized with matadors like Dominguín, an international celebrity in his own right.
  — Fortunato Salazar, Marie Claire, 13 Mar. 2017
• Capers allegedly fraternized with one of the women during that period, too.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• At high densities of states, electrons can more easily fraternize among themselves.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2021
• Soldiers, who thought the February Revolution meant the end of the war, mutinied against their brutal officers, defecting and fraternizing with German troops, wandering back to the cities to find work.
  — David Sessions, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Like going in spikes up at second base, opponents not fraternizing before games and starting pitchers who threw 200 innings every year.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
• What were such strident defenders of America, Trump and Keith both, doing fraternizing with a regime that has been accused of supporting the 9/11 attackers?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Like many of their NFL counterparts, the Saintsations cheer squad must adhere to a strict policy preventing dancers from fraternizing with football players.
  — Molly Knight, Marie Claire, 1 May 2018
• Male and female interns were forbidden from fraternizing and got in trouble for going to Buffalo Wild Wings together.
  — Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
• The sequence of events seems essentially right, except for the quaint idea that Bobby—or anybody else who read a newspaper or gossip column over the previous twenty years—was unaware of Sinatra’s fraternizing with the Mob.
  — Lee Server, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2018
• The directive ordered Taliban fighters not to fight but also not to fraternize with Afghan national security forces.
  — Kathy Gannon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2020
• Wearing the uniform that bears his surname, fraternizing with his 24 teammates and, in the sixth inning, facing the menacing meat of an Astros offense that, right now, thrashes whatever or whomever opposes it.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• As revealed in previously undisclosed FBI files, Manton fraternized with racketeers and accepted large loans and gifts from such unsavory sources.
  — Time, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024