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Example sentences for "our friends"

  • The finest military establishment we can produce must work closely in cooperation with the forces of our friends.

  • Consequently, even as we continue our programs of military assistance, we must emphasize aid to our friends in building more productive economies and in better satisfying the natural demands of their people for progress.

  • Our friends in Western Europe are experiencing new internal vitality, and are increasingly more able to resist external threats.

  • In the Near East we shall spare no effort in seeking to promote a fair solution of the tragic dispute between the Arab States and Israel, all of whom we want as our friends.

  • A substantial beginning can and should be made by our friends themselves.

  • Beaufort, de Brissac, de La Mothe, and myself desired one of our friends to assure the Queen of our most humble obedience, she answered that she should not regard our assurances till we had paid our devoirs to the Cardinal.

  • We had several conferences, at which we agreed on gratifications for some of our friends and to arrest the Prince de Conde, the Prince de Conti, and the Duc de Longueville.

  • I experienced on this occasion that civil wars are attended with this great inconvenience, that there is more need of caution in what we say to our friends than in what we do against our enemies.

  • In three plants examined by me in England, the ovules were likewise monstrous, the nucleus varying much in shape, and projecting irregularly beyond the proper coats.

  • I then tried to interest some of our friends at court; but no one dared to intercede for my darling.

  • Time, which has somewhat moderated the bitterness of our enemies, seems also to have weakened the amity of our friends.

  • Incensed at the tone of this representative of our friends, the empress exclaimed: 'Am I not ruler in the Netherlands as well as in Vienna?

  • Generation is a descending from the loins of our friends; he therefore speaks of the generation of the church.

  • The Easter and Christmas vacations I usually spent in Berlin with my mother, where I was allowed to attend entertainments given by our friends, at which I met many distinguished persons, among others Alexander von Humboldt.

  • When we wished to talk with her we had to sit beside her; and if we kept still she would question us searchingly about everything--our play, our friends, our school.

  • It was all very difficult to understand; and, as we had more friends among the conservatives than among the democrats, we played usually with the former, and troubled ourselves very little about the politics of our friends' fathers.

  • We look askance at our friends, and make the task of comfort doubly hard for those that remain true.

  • Well, these fellows are going to have a regular roof-raising campaign, take the lid off of everything, dump out the red-light district some of our friends are so fond of.

  • At last we achieved the great adventure of a clandestine meeting and went for a walk in the afternoon, avoiding the houses of our friends.

  • Our friends in Boston were more than good.

  • The camp of our friends, a rod or two distant, presented the same scene of lazy tranquillity.

  • Then approached the long team and heavy wagon of our friends; but it paused on the brink.

  • Our friends, who were at no great distance, hearing such a formidable fusillade, thought the Indians had fired the volley for our benefit.

  • Suppose we ourselves had to enter upon the great journey today or tomorrow, shouldn't we be glad to meet some of our friends on the other side and to be welcomed, advised and guided by them in the new surroundings?

  • Frequently we have been severely criticised by our friends, our coworkers or our patients for accepting certain seemingly hopeless chronic cases.

  • Our friends, the osteopaths, have only a pitying smile for our arduous labors.

  • But it was just as well for my moral welfare that I ended my visit to our friends when I did.

  • I thought of my father's house closed to me, and of our friends ashamed of me.

  • Our friends in advance were waiting for us.

  • We then said farewell to our friends and to Goa.

  • I was glad to get back to the beautiful little city again, to receive the ever-warm greetings of our friends.

  • We both suffered horribly, in spite of every attention on the part of our friends.

  • Our friends made a bold rush, but were caught before they could go ten feet.

  • The men there were unaware of the presence of our friends, and were busily engaged.

  • Caught between the two forces of our friends, the "ghost" was at a loss what to do.

  • Almost as suddenly as it had begun, the discharge of the tongues of fire ceased in the immediate vicinity of our friends.

  • I should be most happy to show any of the double stars or whatever else there might be to see in the heavens to any of our friends at this table,--the young man said, so cordially and kindly that it was a real invitation.

  • Mr Lee continued to transmit to our Friends in France as well as to Congress before he left England, the most accurate Accounts of things there.

  • They are allowed, as one of our Friends expresses it, to proclaim a Cessation of Hostilities, and revoke their Proclamation, as soon as in Confidence of it our Militia are allowd to go home.

  • After their first rush the pygmies had fallen back before the well-directed fire of our friends, but as their chiefs and head men urged them to the attack again, they came back with still fiercer energy.

  • The natives had come to a stop some time before, and were huddled together in the jungle back of our friends, waiting to see the result of the white men's shots.

  • Our friends had a general idea of where to look for them, but on nearing that land, and making inquiries of several friendly tribes, they learned that the red pygmies had suddenly disappeared from their usual haunts.

  • Our friends, including Andy Foger, and the German, kept up a hot fire whenever a skulking black form could be seen.

  • After this Mr. Damon was careful not to go into the jungle alone, nor, in fact, did any of our friends so venture.

  • Doubtless those also of our friends to whom we tell the plain, unvarnished truth, if they come here will be disappointed, as they will not see with our eyes.

  • If our friends think we are too enthusiastic, we shall refer them to this old writer to prove that we have not said all that we might; as he indulges in such airy flights of fancy and such extravagant praise.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our 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:
    dollar bills; great crime; heavy sleep; her long; our camp; our children; our city; our fellow; our friends; our front; our great; our horses; our journey; our knowledge; our little; our lives; our minds; our modern; our nation; our national; our new; our political; our position; our situation; our subject; our time