befriend

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• They befriended local business owners and gained the trust of row-home renovators and longtime residents alike — many of whom opened their houses to be photographed.

• I’ve lived in three different neighborhoods in Albuquerque and each time we’ve moved I’ve befriended the neighbors, both because it’s the right thing to do and also because I want them to watch my house when I’m gone.

• She had befriended future first lady Hillary Clinton when both were among the few young female lawyers working on American Bar Association initiatives.

• In one instance, a Thacher student in the 1980s told investigators that a professor “befriended” her while she was a freshman, then forcibly kissed her and groped her at his home, according to the report.

• There also was a lonely camper, warmly befriended by Charlie Brown, named Roy.

• Which itself, in turn, makes it harder to befriend people from the other side.

• You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

• But whatever their private feeling, politicians have been keen to befriend a critical power-broker.

• Rose MacMurray has a precocious teenaged girl befriend the poet in her novel, Afternoons with Emily.

• For her sake alone I should think he would be pleased to find others ready to befriend her.

• On the following day he parted forever from the family that he would have given his life to befriend.

• Sisters, let us try by all possible means to our own sex and help all who are thrown in our way, heavenward.