(v. t.) To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(2) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(3) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(4) Their biggest break was to move into Russia just after the break-up of the Soviet Union, buying up half the country's aluminium production facilities and befriending Oleg Deripaska, the oligarch associate of Nat Rothschild and Peter Mandelson.
(5) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(6) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
(7) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(8) Jurassic Park, for example, was never going to be a charming story about a young boy who successfully befriends a ravenous if depressed Tyrannosaurus rex.
(9) I Hate Being Single A Brooklyn hipster looks for love after being dumped, trying everything from an underground singles cult to befriending his banker.
(10) Though deadlocked at home, Barack Obama impressed both sides of British politics and in 2009 entered the hostile atmosphere of the Kremlin to befriend the then-president Dmitry Medvedev and make headway on a difficult disarmament treaty.
(11) The Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) service has been running for close to a decade to provide statutory advocacy for non-befriended people such as dementia sufferers who lack the capacity to make decisions on accommodation and medical treatment.
(12) Janan Mosazai, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, urged the cadets to befriend their Pakistani counterparts at the training academy.
(13) Much has been made of Mary Beard’s approach of befriending and even writing job references for some of her trolls .
(14) She befriends fellow models Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange.
(15) Edgerton also stars in a key supporting role as the sinister local man who attempts to befriend the new arrivals.
(16) The jury heard how Arshid and Basharat plied some of the girls with alcohol or drugs after initially befriending them.
(17) David Oelhoffen Loin des Hommes, meanwhile, focuses on the Franco-Algerian war and stars Viggo Mortensen as a teacher who befriends a dissident.
(18) Later, Studs would guide the careers of Big Bill Broonzy and other blues stars, and befriend Billie Holiday.
(19) Guided by Paul Britton and with the approval of those at the top of the Met, they used "Lizzy James" to befriend Stagg through a lonely hearts ad.
(20) There are some 3,000 Paro seals worldwide, the vast majority in Japan where they have even been used to befriend earthquake survivors.
Warrior
Definition:
(n.) A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.
Example Sentences:
(1) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
(2) And the Warriors played big men Andrew Bogut and David Lee very little in this game (just one minute for Lee and a DNP for Bogut), preferring to let Tristan Thompson and Mozgov get points inside.
(3) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
(4) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
(5) Critics of initiation say traditional leaders have failed to update their teachings from the times when the ritual was put in place to select and grade warriors.
(6) Man of Steel gets three stars from him, thanks largely to an opening section that "creates a plausible context for the introspection and self-doubt that dogs the adult version of [this] costumed warrior".
(7) It ranges from cold warriors to appeasers," said one of the European officials.
(8) And just as they are fighting today against equal marriage, warriors of the cloth battled with everything they had to keep it that way.
(9) 'Happy warrior' Ed Miliband leaves leaders' debate notes in dressing room Read more The Liberal Democrats and David Cameron have opted out of the BBC debate on 16 April leaving Miliband at risk of attacks from a triple alliance to his left, as well as Nigel Farage to his right.
(10) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(11) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(12) Maybe it's the culture, I don't know, but in England you're warriors.
(13) On Wednesday, after the blast that destroyed their Warrior vehicle, which took the death toll of British troops in Afghanistan over the 400 mark, talk was dominated by why British soldiers were still in Afghanistan and when they would be pulled out.
(14) The Warriors were without starting center Andrew Bogut, forcing Kerr to start Draymond Green at center alongside Harrison Barnes and Brandon Rush.
(15) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
(16) In the first series of Game of Thrones, he is shown serving a warrior king gone to seed and oppressed by serious marital problems.
(17) French secret agents, on the orders of the government, planted bombs on the Rainbow Warrior in a New Zealand harbour, killing one of the crew.
(18) Welcome to Calabria #gestapo#ss#army#military#guerilla#warrior.” “It was not my intention to offend anyone,” he inevitably added later.
(19) This makes it very easy for anyone to pick up a weapon and become a warrior – meaning that not all of those who do are necessarily as doctrinally pure as a group might want.
(20) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.