How to Use buddy in a Sentence

buddy

1 of 3 noun
  • His fishing buddy just bought a new boat.
  • Aplin knew his buddy knew ball.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where the handy book buddy comes in.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025
  • His buddies just … barked at him in the weight room.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Then a few of my buddies wear 91.
    — Scott Powers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And don’t let your buddy Rob start with that.
    — Christine Terrisse, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • What a great prank to pull on your deer hunting buddy.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • My buddy taught me how to play guitar.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The other was killed when a buddy of mine ran over it in a car.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • He’s even made a game out of it with his travel buddies.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
  • In that case, just take your time, little buddy.
    — Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Workout buddies to hike or jog with?
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Some of our buddies are getting hit.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Some of our buddies are getting hit.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • My buddy’s friend goes back to fishing.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2026
  • Sloan says his buddy has done neither.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • My buddies will come over, and this kind of becomes a home for them too.
    — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Her bags are already packed, buddy.
    — Millan Verma, Pitchfork, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Paul had a buddy who was riding his bike, and went out to go say hi to him.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But at the end of the day, all my buddies are just getting done with high school.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • High school buddies from Muleshoe, Texas, poked fun at his age.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Much more fun to natter away with your travel buddy.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Both sides give tax breaks to their buddies with money neither side has.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Read on, and then grab a new hunting and fishing buddy and hit the field.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Jodi was once my neighbor, and our kids were buddies.
    — Jennie Glazer, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • One of my buddies Max started the trend for me and got me in the field.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Use it as a carry-on, grocery tote, gym bag, or beach buddy.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
  • So thank you, little buddy, for saving my life.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Raynaud doesn’t mind, though, if his buddy takes a while to respond.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This buddy pass got me first class flights to pretty much anywhere in the world for free.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 11 July 2023

buddy

2 of 3 verb
  • Paul has since been seen buddying up with Trump on the golf course.
    — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Indeed, even those who were inclined to buddy up to Trump appear to be changing course.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • That work ethic has drawn comparisons to buddy Collin Sexton.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
  • His complicated struggles to accept this team as well as having to buddy up with an actual terrorist was so fun to watch.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Buddying up helps students afford higher rents and compete with long-time residents and families.
    — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 23 July 2017
  • To maximize the use of a Zero Waste Box consider buddying up with friends, family or co-workers.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • The Rabbids show up in a time-traveling washing machine, the helmet accidentally gloms onto one of the bunch, who kicks off a rash of transmogrifications, hybridizing characters and beloved landscapes before buddying with the usual Mario villains.
    — Matt Peckham, Time, 28 Aug. 2017

buddy

3 of 3 adjective
  • There are too many things out here that are willing to kill you and eat you alive, buddy.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Thank you for touching the hearts of so many people and being an idle [sic] for so many people buddy.
    — Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2022
  • The movie is as much buddy picture as action comedy — and the action is very slam-bang.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • Or a sort of buddy film in which the buddies turn out not to be buddies at all, though each in his way might at times believe it so.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • One great system that has worked especially well has been a buddy program.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Take the one scene where Slater is showing a buddy remedies to remove excess air from his bong hits in his classroom.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The events that transpire turn the film into a buddy comedy-meets-Cage-style action movie.
    — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Their new partnership results in a buddy comedy-like arc for the duo in the second half of the final season.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • In circles, otherwise known as buddy groups—safe spaces where women could get together and share their stories.
    — Courtney Rubin, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Ragnarok was born out of this idea for a buddy comedy between Mark Ruffalo and Chris.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022
  • Which is how the multi-hyphenate project Fire Bones became, among other things, a buddy comedy.
    — Lauren Smart, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The buddy program helps the newcomers bolster those same skills in a safe environment, organizers said.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2022
  • So, yeah, for a minute there, in its usual and unique mix of quirky comedy and genuine horror, the episode became a buddy cop story as father and son worked together to catch the killer.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • There's literally a camel being milked by our buddy Glen (Clark Middleton).
    — Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The buddy comedy, her first full-length feature film, was filmed last summer in Wisconsin with a cast and crew nearly all from Wisconsin.
    — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Sort of a Willy Wonka competition-reality mixed with a buddy comedy.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 June 2021
  • The iQIYI original drama may not be a buddy drama, but there’s definitely bromance.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Thus begins a rollicking buddy action-comedy-romance that made a star out of Ledger and helped solidify its supporting players as future screen stalwarts.
    — Benjamin Lindsay, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • And if that's still too difficult, players can enlist a friend to help out in a co-op mode that lets a buddy control support characters that create platforms, protect the protagonist or carry him across obstacles.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The mothers said their children grew up in a community where they always have been accepted by every school group, whether through a buddy program in elementary school or an adaptive PE program in high school.
    — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • As Deadline reported, Bautista will also star in a buddy action comedy alongside Jason Momoa, set to shoot in 2023.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
  • This is a buddy comedy adventure involving an elite North Korean soldier and an espionage official from South Korea.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The untitled show, which sources say Fox envisions as a possible companion to Call Me Kat, is a buddy comedy about two women who are placed in the witness protection program.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Me Time brings a type of buddy comedy to Netflix that theatrical audiences haven’t gotten to experience as much in recent years, and the film is courtesy of a writer and director who knows quite a bit about the genre’s glory era.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Zootopia at its heart is a buddy comedy with a do-gooder cop (Ginnifer Goodwin) teaming up with a sneaky criminal (Jason Bateman) to solve a slew of missing-mammals cases in the eponymous metropolis.
    — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • Admission was originally free, but after the third suicide, the Related Companies, which built and controls Hudson Yards, imposed a $10 entrance fee and a buddy rule.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 July 2021
  • Muttering and soaked in sweat, Hardy lurched through the movie insistent that the saga of how a swaggering investigative journalist named Eddie Brock becomes host to a cannibalistic alien symbiote was, in fact, a buddy comedy.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021

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