Examples of befriend in a Sentence
He befriended the new student.
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In Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Gomez, 33, plays Mabel, who befriends two of her neighbors — Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) — who share her obsession with true crime podcasts.
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Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
While posing as fictional businessman Matthew Ellis, Pine befriends Teddy and attempts to ascertain information about a shipment of weapons that Teddy hopes to send out in the coming days.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Jan. 2026
In a town plagued with sudden deaths and missing persons, a troubled eight-year-old girl befriends a boy that lives in the shadows, and her new stepmom learns why things that live in the dark don’t want to be seen.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
When a clash between a student and another teacher divides the university, the employer commands Agathe to befriend the offending student and the two develop an instant but irritating intellectual intimacy.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
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“Befriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befriend. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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befriend
verb
be·friend
bi-ˈfrend 
: to become or act as a friend to
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