He befriends poor Smike, and is much, attached to Nicholas Nickleby.
Disgusted with her master and with her life, she befriends another woman, even more helpless than herself, and by stratagem and force of will contrives her escape (1852).
One whom heaven befriends is in himself a host, and Jove has shown that he befriends this man by destroying much people of the Achaeans.
He who befriends them is one of them; God tolerates no sinful people.
She is a giddy little thing, and much care to whoever befriends her.
Die Dämmerung ist das freundliche Licht der Liebenden=--The gloaming is the light that befriends the wooer.
The local Genius ne'er befriends 40 Desires whose course in folly ends, Whose just reward is shame.
Be happy that my arms are out of use; My rest and negligence befriends thee now, But thou anon shalt hear of me again; Till when, go seek thy fortune.
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
The masters declare him outsung and rejected, but Hans Sachs befriends him, and demands he shall have a chance for the prize.
Don Caesar befriends him, and in consequence becomes involved in a duel, which leads to his arrest; for it is Holy Week, and duelling during that time has been forbidden on pain of death.
Here too they suffer much hardship; but the Milesians have now come into the land, and a young farmer named Evric, dwelling on the shores of Erris Bay, finds out who and what the swans are, and befriends them.
He calls himself “a creature of habit,” has a great respect for the head of the house, and befriends John Carker when he falls into disgrace by robbing his employer.
He befriends the struggling Richlings, setting John upon his feet time and again, and in his last illness, never leaving him until he goes out and closes the door upon the dying man, reunited to his wife and child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befriends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
