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Example sentences for "make friends"

  • Now, before he faced the head of the Osborne house with the news which it was his duty to tell, Dobbin bethought him that it would be politic to make friends of the rest of the family, and, if possible, have the ladies on his side.

  • So she wisely determined to render her position with the Queen's Crawley family comfortable and secure, and to this end resolved to make friends of every one around her who could at all interfere with her comfort.

  • When he had finished he invited me to make friends with El Toro by also sitting on his back and scratching him with the blunt nail.

  • To make friends in this time-honoured way with the whole village cost me less than two francs.

  • We disguised ourselves as you because we wanted to learn how to make friends before we tried.

  • So our ultimatum is--make friends or we go away and leave you alone.

  • It will have to be handled diplomatically, so your people are back of a grand offer to make friends when it happens.

  • Coburn said formidably, "We'd study them and try to make friends.

  • There is but one way to make friends; and that is, by being friendly to others.

  • This is the way to make friends, and the only way.

  • I will go down there, and see if I can find a nice house to live in, and some people to make friends with, who will not try to kill me or to cheat me, but love me and be grateful to me for any kindness I show them.

  • Is it a good thing to make friends easily?

  • It is all very well," thought the mouse, "to pretend to make friends with an enemy when that enemy is helpless, but I should indeed be a silly mouse to trust a cat when she is free to kill me.

  • Well, then, suppose we make friends," replied I, holding out my hand.

  • What's done can't be helped; here we are; now let us do all we can to make friends.

  • He is a bad provider, doesn't make friends, I thought there will be a calamity in the family there sometime.

  • He never went out of his way to make friends, I mean, from what I knew of him.

  • Well, let's just put it this way; he didn't make friends.

  • But at best it is only possible for a canteen worker to make friends with a few men.

  • It was, I suppose, part of my business to make friends of the men round me.

  • It was not difficult to make friends with M.

  • He had several times during those years come up to me and tried to make friends; but I had always turned sulkily away and refused to have anything to do with him.

  • Last came the mysterious counsel to make friends and to like people, the particular friends and people intended being consolidated, he could understand now, in the person of old Nicolovius.

  • She read: Make friends; mingle with people, and learn to like them.

  • Stooping forward to introduce it into the penumbra of lamplight, he read over the detective-story message: "Make friends: mingle with people and learn to like them.

  • Ug makigpunpal ka ayaw gawía ring ákù, If you are calling just to make friends with s.

  • Nakaamigu kug tagaadwána, I managed to make friends with s.

  • Impulsive Gwethyn, having learnt Githa's story, was anxious to atone for several lively passages of arms, and to make friends.

  • Rolf, the collie who had given Gwethyn so churlish a reception on her former visit, was now ready to make friends, and a grey stable cat also condescended to be petted and stroked.

  • It's good for you to make friends of your own age," she remarked.

  • Well, my dear, I meant no harm; shake hands, now, and let us make friends.

  • A friendly solicitor—I had been admonished to make friends of the Mammon of Unrighteousness—introduced me at a City dinner to William Harrison Ainsworth, author of “The Tower of London” and other lurid romances.

  • Colonel Whitehead was another gentleman who thought it well to establish relations with gentlemen on the Press—on the principle, I suppose, that it is well to make friends of the mammon of unrighteousness.

  • He was in no mood to speak of himself or try to make friends.

  • I guess it's been because I'd GOT to make friends so as I could earn a living.

  • She would begin to understand that it wasn't his fault; then perhaps he could get her to make friends.

  • You'll make friends up in Harlem, and you won't find it hard to pick up news.

  • Well, you know as well as I do that Mother's purpose in sending us here was for us to make friends.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make friends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    domestic cattle; make arrangements; make every; make friends; make good; make him; make himself; make itself; make money; make much; make myself; make others; make progress; make restitution; make sail; make slaves; make something; make speeches; make terms; make themselves; make things; make three; make use; much power; step farther; when called