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Example sentences for "friendly"

Lexicographically close words:
friendlier; friendlies; friendliest; friendlily; friendliness; friends; friendship; friendships; friendt; frient
  1. The Duke of Alva and other great lords of the Imperial court had free access to and held friendly intercourse with him, and enlivened him by their society.

  2. In the year 1561, Count Lothair von Oettingen came during Lent to Augsburg; he sent many friendly words to me, as that he and his other brothers were quite sorry that his brother Count Ludwig had treated me in so unseemly a manner.

  3. Having given you first, dear Johann, my friendly greeting, know that we are all well in health, praise and thanks be to God, and hope to hear the same of you.

  4. I served once at an inn in Innspruck, when the Emperor Maximilian held his court there: the Swiss had much business to arrange with him; and they were so friendly that I shall always be kind to them as long as I live.

  5. She and I came here the same year, and lived so friendly together that neither ever angered the other with a word.

  6. He must be softened; his divine fire shaded by the friendly screens of more prudent, more conventional talent.

  7. Released by friendly intervention he had still to remain without Paris for two years more.

  8. Jeanette was tethered beyond kicking distance of the horses; for between her and the mustang there existed no friendly feeling.

  9. He was, therefore, in no very friendly humour with the wolves-- upon whose account he was thus compelled to keep awake.

  10. These signs were at once understood by the Indian, who sprang forward, pulled off the cords that bound Basil's ankles, raised him to his feet, embracing him as he did so with friendly exclamations!

  11. Or did their father anticipate that the excursion should extend no farther than the country of some friendly tribe?

  12. Besides, the submerged boat might be a friendly one, a fact which was borne upon the British authorities on two separate occasions when scouting aeroplanes reported submarines near, and speedy motor boats rushed to the attack.

  13. She stands in friendly relations with all the world.

  14. From highest to lowest, almost all the Russian officers I have met are friendly and unassuming.

  15. No attempt was made to disguise the gravity of the situation, and there was a quiet recognition of the fact that the continuance of friendly relations rested wholly on the action of the German Government.

  16. The maid who waited on us was friendly too, and while J.

  17. A little lower was the friendly driver with his empty carriage, for he had rested at the 'Squirrel,' and so we had caught up to him again.

  18. Hosea invited me to his ampler room for daily conversations over the friendly glass; we talked much, but not about the sea.

  19. Hosea agreed this was a remarkable sunset; then took me off to the friendly tot and talk in his room.

  20. Thus dismissed, with another friendly tap on the shoulder, Royson had no option but to raise his hat again.

  21. Once the papyrus left Baron von Kerber's possession, our exclusive right to it vanished, and you can hardly expect me to engage in an armed attack on the military forces of a friendly nation.

  22. The man would take his cue from a friendly opening.

  23. They chatted freely now with the friendly ease that was their wont ever since the exigencies of camp life had thrown them together far more than was possible on board ship.

  24. Stump was a prophet worthy of honor, though Dick did not appreciate the Baron's friendly solicitude about his affairs until long afterwards.

  25. He had appreciated the fatal error of the friendly Arabs in deserting their stronghold.

  26. Fenshawe's friendly letter was found among his papers, so he had hurried from his camp on the Suleiman's Well route with the deliberate intention of wiping out of existence the man who was his sworn enemy.

  27. Bolden held out his trembling hand and the animal came to him with alert and friendly yellow eyes.

  28. It was a friendly thing and he couldn't understand why the natives always kept it caged.

  29. When the light of my song is o'er, Then take my harp to your ancient hall; Hang it up at that friendly door, Where weary travellers love to call.

  30. Lord Moira, Lady Donegal, and other leaders of fashionable society, took him up with friendly warmth, and he soon found himself a well-accepted guest in the highest circles in London.

  31. Talk of your animal magnetists, And that wave of the hand no soul resists, Not all its witcheries can compete With the friendly beckon towards Downing Street, Which a Premier gives to one who wishes To taste of the Treasury loaves and fishes.

  32. This was another proof that there is treachery among friendly natives, for without help these Boxers could never have escaped.

  33. This is one side of the picture, the side which friendly Chinese are painting for us.

  34. For half an hour and more we had, indeed, lost sight of every friendly face.

  35. There is a more friendly feeling among the commands in our lines, and the various contingents are being redistributed.

  36. The volunteer dropped back to his side, and then, after, a while, waved an empty tin in his hand as a notice that he desired a resumption of friendly relations.

  37. Longstreet, on the other hand, as he made himself comfortable, considered Sanchia Murray as nice and friendly and pleasant.

  38. Longstreet saw Howard and put out a friendly hand.

  39. Howard, who held back a pace, fully occupying his own hands with the reins of the three horses, she treated to a quick, friendly nod.

  40. Moraga showed many large white teeth in a friendly smile and gave into Longstreet's keeping a small, moist and very flabby hand.

  41. A few minutes, and I heard the friendly voice of my charioteer hallooing to me from the summit of the hill.

  42. I respect your taste, Cavendish," said the friendly critic, with effusion; and somehow this applause irritated its recipient more than all that had gone before.

  43. And she has a nice little voice," Lucilla said to herself, with the most friendly and tolerant feelings.

  44. Yet he did not face his companion as a friendly listener should, but began to beat measure to an irritating imaginary air on the table, with a certain savage energy by moments, as if he were beating time on the General's head.

  45. And yet all the time Miss Marjoribanks was looking as placid as if she had been in her own drawing-room, and expecting his reply to her friendly observations.

  46. And there can be little wonder if Miss Marjoribanks's compassion for them was mingled with a little friendly and condescending disdain.

  47. For, to be sure, the dearest climax of her triumph was wanting so long as Lucilla took no notice; and so far from taking any notice, Miss Marjoribanks was sweeter and more friendly than usual in her serene unconsciousness.

  48. When she had said this, Lucilla bestowed upon little Rose a friendly schoolfellow kiss, putting her hands upon the little artist's shoulders, and looking her full in the face as she did so.

  49. Even the business meetings themselves were social occasions at which dinner and friendly conversation were mixed with more critical concerns.

  50. But in a few minutes the noise ceased, either from the interference of some friendly inhabitant, or that the boys grew weary, and departed in search of other amusement.

  51. It is quite possible to be too much afraid of giving offence," I said; "But nothing can be more gentle and friendly than the way in which you have communicated the necessity.

  52. Somehow none of them had felt as if they were on very familiar terms with her, though they all spoke in a friendly way of her as being "a mighty purty, still, kind o' a harmless young critter.

  53. According to all accounts, Mr. Gladstone is on the most friendly terms with his tenantry.

  54. Every candidate, friendly or unfriendly, will form his own view, and take his own course on the subject.

  55. Granny held her hand in a warm friendly clasp and thought that the child looked as if she had had a good time.

  56. Mr. Befort is one of the men at the factory so I have come to get acquainted with his family," she explained with a friendly smile.

  57. Then he lit a cigarette, paid the amount demanded, and went outside on to the platform, where he and the Dutch station-master walked up and down in friendly converse till the train for Johannesburg arrived.

  58. That appeased him, and he once more chatted in a friendly manner with Francis.

  59. Jack happened to be near the general at the time, and his guard, who was a friendly young Boer, interpreted what was said.

  60. Frank was there, seated again on the fire-guard, and greeted him with no very friendly looks, made all the more unpleasant by the unnatural size of his nose and lips.

  61. All that night he trudged on, and spent the following day beneath the shade of a friendly thorn bush.

  62. Still, that is what it was, but it was used always in the most friendly way, which showed that he was a favourite.

  63. When nearing Ladysmith Jack and Guy left the truck which had proved such a friendly shelter to them, and striking away from the line hid themselves close to the summit of a solitary hill.

  64. Jack at once complied, and before the meal was over found himself on most friendly terms with the young lord who sat opposite him.

  65. Wilberforce had met Lord Ellenborough on the Continent in 1785, and had maintained a friendly intercourse with him.

  66. I do not like to give expression to these distressing risings, because I may not unreasonably appear to be calling for friendly assurances in return of my having been an active labourer.

  67. Not all on account of what I owed Mr. Robert for the friendly turns he'd done me.

  68. One can't pamper a ruined digestion and still enjoy these friendly little business bouts.

  69. That's the spirit," says he, clappin' me friendly on the shoulder.

  70. So far as I could see, the inmates was friendly enough with each other.

  71. It's too bad, for that Mrs. Tupper did seem such a friendly old soul.

  72. So at the end of three weeks her friendly relations with us were still unbroken, though most of the dishes were otherwise.

  73. He is already interested in you; I have often written to him of the house and the family where I have found such a friendly welcome, and it would delight him to hear that I had formed a--" Again he was on the way to a proposal.

  74. After a moment's hesitation he grasped the superintendent's proffered hand, and returned his friendly greeting.

  75. In spite of his friendly regard for my father, he is as cold and distant to us now as he was upon the day of his arrival here.

  76. She did not tell Philip about her quarrel, because she knew that he would have reminded her one by one of every occasion he had taken to warn Sylvia against being friendly with any inhabitant of Tintown.

  77. In the summer Lily became friendly with one or two men whom Sylvia could not endure, but a lassitude had descended upon her and she lacked any energy to stop the association.

  78. Then they got into the governess-car with much determination, and with friendly waves of the hand to Sylvia set out back to Oaktown.

  79. Miss Dashwood inviting me in that friendly way, I do want to show that I appreciate her kindness.

  80. Sylvia's intercourse with Miss Horne and Miss Hobart was still friendly enough to necessitate an early visit to Sunny Bank to present the twins.

  81. But to discharge that friendly office no universal genius is salaried; and for intellect in the rough there is no market.

  82. Then the door burst open, and a tall man entered, booming a friendly "hello" to both of us.

  83. But I knew better; this was a man whose fixation for children passed beyond benign teasing and friendly adoration; something in his touch spoke of an urge to seize and capture, to hurt and control.

  84. When my staccatoed lack of interest toward him finally obliterated his illusion of my deep feelings, he would resume friendly interaction.

  85. Toward alcohol I fostered a friendly regard although I despised immoderation; liquor could be enjoyed without partaking to excess.

  86. Since I was naturally an achiever, I received a fair amount of friendly attention through these years.

  87. The best things about the place, though, were the river which rushed several yards from our door and the ability to procure frozen pizzas from the friendly owner, Marion.

  88. Nevertheless, I was pleased to have been accepted by those with whom I had always maintained friendly terms.

  89. Excepting few, the employees and staff were friendly and approachable; even the doctors radiated character rather than the cold indifference sometimes prevalent in large or impersonal institutions.

  90. Then suddenly, as if uncertainty had been washed away, the door knob turned and a doctor burst into the room, extending his hand to my father and offering a friendly "hello!

  91. Having my parents throughout the majority of the day, augmented by patients that one would inevitably begin to recognize and the friendly staff of doctors and nurses, I lacked no conversation.

  92. As the days wore on, feeling myself to have become a permanent fixture, I developed a friendly relationship with one of my numerous roommates.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "friendly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    friendly fashion; friendly manner; friendly natives; friendly port; friendly power; friendly smile; friendly societies; friendly society; friendly terms; friendly tone