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Example sentences for "befriend"

Lexicographically close words:
beforehand; beforementioned; beforetime; beforn; befouled; befriended; befriending; befriends; befrilled; befuddled
  1. And though you do not want to billet soldiers, you will, I know, befriend a soldier's daughter.

  2. I should befriend the devil's dam, asking your ladyship's pardon, if Master Wheatman brought her here.

  3. Your own heart can tell you: can you befriend me, and will you?

  4. A few days ago, the easiest way would have been to offer to befriend her brother, but this morning brings us news that this is not needed,--he is coming home.

  5. Amelia must come and see her and befriend her.

  6. He was not only able but willing to befriend the young lawyer in this and many other ways.

  7. Perhaps it was the orphan who was quite broken-hearted, having no one to befriend her but God,' said Stella, with a faint smile.

  8. If the eternal prosperity favor and befriend thee, thou wilt undoubtedly attain to this bounty.

  9. In this wonderful age, according to the divine texts, ye must befriend all nations and communities.

  10. The good Sir Hugh felt, that however much the son of the wool-comber might have disgraced himself, at any rate he himself was in duty bound to try and befriend him.

  11. We have been long friends, Anne Hathaway, and if I find the choice you have made a worthy one, I will befriend you both.

  12. Well," said Sir Hugh, "the lad is certainly a youth of merit, and I feel bound to befriend him in what I can.

  13. She had desired to befriend the postman but, if he had taken it into his hands to befriend himself, it was quite another matter.

  14. The purpose of the letter was to inform Don Tomas that he had returned to England, was claiming "magnificent lands," and in brief to prepare his old acquaintances to befriend him there.

  15. You can't count on the sea to befriend you this time, Captain.

  16. Besides, I should like to befriend her, poor girl!

  17. If you are unjustly accused, I desire to befriend you, and offer you some advice.

  18. I feel more interest in this matter than you can possibly realize, and, believing her innocent, I will befriend her to the last extremity.

  19. Why will you persist in regarding as an enemy, the one person in all the world who is most anxious to befriend you?

  20. Believe me, I will befriend you if I can.

  21. The crafty German did not tell them that that was Tewfic Pasha, who, meeting the German, and, discovering that he already had news of such prisoners, had asked him to befriend them.

  22. But Camillo remained behind, for he was charmed with Perdita, and wished to befriend her.

  23. Now Sir Rowland de Boys, when he was alive, had been a good friend to the banished Duke, so that Frederick heard with regret whose son Orlando was, and would not befriend him.

  24. As you say, mademoiselle, my life, if I befriend her," he said simply.

  25. But your popularity--your life--if you befriend her?

  26. I am not his daughter, it is true,--but he is a feeble old man, and I will befriend him if I can.

  27. Believe me when I say that he is desirous to befriend you.

  28. I am prepared to befriend her, to save her, if my conditions are accepted.

  29. Oh, if I could speak to that vision of superlative beauty, I am sure she would befriend my poor sister.

  30. When you get into trouble again, let me hear from you and I will befriend you, if possible.

  31. I am willing to gratify and befriend you; but there are four Roman soldiers at the door of her cell, who permit no one but myself to go in or out.

  32. Still, the new governor, whoever he was, would befriend me.

  33. He was to aid and befriend us, and, as I hoped, to deliver us from the control of Magistus.

  34. So it is in the admirable order of sublunary affairs: everything seeks its kind; the rich befriend the rich, the powerful stand by the powerful, the poor enjoy the patronage of the poor, and thus a universal harmony prevails.

  35. Surely Allah will befriend the righteous cause; one blow, and all may be my own.

  36. They stood firm, battling for it with the united force of love and grief, never drawing back the foot while they had hands to fight or fortune to befriend them.

  37. Christians in that country: I befriend him what I can, on account of the Archbishop and Bishop of Clogher.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befriend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; aid; assist; avail; befriend; benefit; comfort; doctor; ease; fall; favor; help; protect; rally; reclaim; redeem; relieve; remedy; rescue; restore; resuscitate; revive; save; succor; sustain