FRIEND in a Sentence

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Gregson is the smartest of the Scotland Yarders," my friend remarked; "he and Lestrade are the pick of a bad lot.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRIEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
friend
 n.  a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "For Mr. Sherlock Holmes," he said, stepping into the room and handing my friend the letter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Gregson is the smartest of the Scotland Yarders," my friend remarked; "he and Lestrade are the pick of a bad lot.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  "It would be robbing you of the credit of the case if I was to presume to help you," remarked my friend.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  There, I didn't mean that," she said; "of course, you are a friend now.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5  The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  My friend volunteered to go and see.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
7  Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
8  I've a friend who's been to Russia.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
9  To be sure, I hope I'm right, for I had a cousin who married a girl of that name, and as a friend of the family, we don't stand on ceremony.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull, and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
11  This hall, in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend the doctor's; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend's feverish manner.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
13  Utterson ruminated a while; he was surprised at his friend's selfishness, and yet relieved by it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
14  That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
15  I do not blame our old friend," Jekyll wrote, "but I share his view that we must never meet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  A friend without faults will never be found.
17  Thy friend has a friend and thy friend's friend has a friend so be discreet.
18  Because she had no children of her own, her friend's son became a kind of surrogate child to her.
19  I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
20  I'd met Anna before, but her friend was a complete/total stranger to me.
21  The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend.
22  A true friend is for ever a friend.
23  A true friend is known in the day of adversity.
24  A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
25  There is nothing like a true friend.
26  The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
27  Try your friend ere you trust him.
28  Don't try to win a friend by presenting gifts.
29  It really screwed him up when he saw his friend get killed.
30  He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.