FRIENDS in a Sentence

Learn FRIENDS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for FRIENDS, such as:
1. A man is known by his friends.
2. It's OK, you're among friends now.
3. I number her among my closest friends.
4. Our American friends are touring Europe.
5. She needs to find more friends of her own age.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FRIENDS
friends
 n.  a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
 n.  a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At first she was so awkward that he could not help laughing at her; but she laughed with him and that made them better friends.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Zeena answered in her every-day tone and, warming to the theme, regaled them with several vivid descriptions of intestinal disturbances among her friends and relatives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  He's that proud he don't even like his oldest friends to go there; and I don't know as any do, any more, except myself and the doctor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  She and I were great friends, and she was to have been my bridesmaid in the spring.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they could ride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  And the daughters of their old friends had long since married and were raising small children of their own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  They had many friends, and for a month they carried Gerald from home to home, to suppers, dances and picnics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  The wide curving driveway was full of saddle horses and carriages and guests alighting and calling greetings to friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Scarlett vaguely remembered two ladies of those names who came from Atlanta to Tara to attend her wedding and she remembered that they were Miss Pittypat's best friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  But on three afternoons a week she had to attend sewing circles and bandage-rolling committees of Melanie's friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Such handsome men, thought Scarlett, with a swell of pride in her heart, as the men called greetings, waved to friends, bent low over the hands of elderly ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  He wrote of books which he and Melanie had read and songs they had sung, of old friends they knew and places he had visited on his Grand Tour.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  She knew very well what her friends were saying when she permitted him to call but she still lacked the courage to tell him he was unwelcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other weeps.
2  A man is known by his friends.
3  He betrayed all his friends on his own account.
4  We visited some friends in France, but we didn't want to overstay our welcome and left after a couple of days.
5  A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
6  She needs to find more friends of her own age.
7  By tacit agreement , Clark's friends all avoided any mention of his mentally ill wife.
8  The two of them went everywhere together and their friends could already hear wedding bells.
9  He went through with his plan although all his friends advised him to abandon it.
10  Our American friends are touring Europe.
11  It's OK, you're among friends now.
12  I number her among my closest friends.
13  Among the friends we make in life,there are only one or two who can be called "a special friend" and that's how I think of you.
14  His sudden disappearance triggered a red alert among his friends.
15  With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.