How to Use old friend in a Sentence

old friend

noun
Definition of old friendnext
  • One such artist was an old friend of the Prince of Wales.
    — Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
  • She’s then pulled back in at the request of an old friend.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2024
  • And the Chiefs going back to an old friend in the playbook at the most crucial of times.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • At the end of the day, sometimes an old friend and a bowl of ramen are as good as gold.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
  • An old friend of his from high school and the parents of a friend were among the civilians who had been killed.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Link up with an old friend, or get a bunch of the big dogs together.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Dear Miss Manners: An old friend from high school has reached out to me.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In a twist of fate, his old friend and Rays teammate Peter Bendix reached out.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The path back, as Lynn saw it, started with bringing his old friend on board.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But our meeting with Racha was like talking to an old friend.
    — Ericka Hart, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But all is good, until an old friend of Adonis’s shows up.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • After months in a Georgia shelter, a beloved dog will get a new home — with an old friend.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Skelly, your old friend from Home Depot, is back and ready to party.
    — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2024
  • As an old friend of mine once said, entertainment rides or dies because of the stars.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But an unexpected phone call from an old friend returned Laine to the top in 1971.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2023
  • When Dean’s friends stonewall her, Addison hires her father’s old friend, Porter Hayes, to look for him.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • One morning, Small emerged from the fog of a weekend spent partying at an old friend's house, and walked to a bus stop at the corner.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Between the lines: Biden also is relying on some help from an old friend.
    — Axios, 10 July 2024
  • But one of the guests, an old friend of the football star, later confessed to conflicting emotions.
    — Susan Schindehette, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In the wake of Matthew Perry’s death at 54, fans in China are mourning the loss of the star who felt less like a distant celebrity and more like an old friend.
    — Fu Ting, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • This mechanical aid felt like a hand from an old friend when my legs were achy and tired after a long run.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The 59-year-old is also reuniting with an old friend for a new project, as Dre’s teasing an album on the way with Snoop Dogg.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Despite his busy travel schedule, Matsuhisa makes time to come by the restaurant to see his old friend.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Jeremy Renner took a moment to reunite with an old friend at the 2024 People’s Choice Awards.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
  • After 28 years of not making it to the NFC title game, the Cowboys are trying something new with an old friend.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • The two-minute, 29 seconds-long clip opens with a conversation between John Wick and his old friend, Caine.
    — Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Asher treats him as an old friend, even as Dougie seems mostly dismissive of him.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The story has Kubo give up his normal life and enter the wondrous halls of otaku culture, with his old friend Tanaka.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Then, about two months after Young’s comments, Ethridge heard from an old friend of her fathers: The suit was in an auction in London.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • When Krosnick noticed a Facebook post by the trumpeter lamenting that the company had locked him out of his page for allegedly impersonating himself, the drummer made a call to an old friend who works for the oft-uncontactable company.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024

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