How to Use fraternize in a Sentence

fraternize

verb
  • It is usually unwise to fraternize with your employees.
  • Don’t fraternize with any of those bugs en route home except for the Hornet.
    — Houston Chronicle, 21 July 2019
  • Bunnies, who lived in dorms on the property, could not fraternize with the guests and guests could not touch them.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2019
  • Tam is concerned a group her daughter had been fraternizing with may be involved.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 30 May 2017
  • The biggest rule was that we weren't allowed to fraternize with the football players.
    — Anonymous, Cosmopolitan, 20 Nov. 2015
  • He will still be permitted to walk onto the House floor and fraternize with members.
    — Kevin Freking The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Ending the rule that says cheerleaders are not allowed to fraternize with players.
    — Molly Knight, Marie Claire, 1 May 2018
  • The meeting was covert; fraternizing with the enemy was not allowed.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In his unit, the officers aren’t saddled by rules against fraternizing with prisoners.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At high densities of states, electrons can more easily fraternize among themselves.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2021
  • And the players would go up there, fraternize with the owners and customers, and Buddy Parker did not want that.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
  • At the mountain camp, Maple fraternized with German prisoners of war and hatched an escape plan.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Capers allegedly fraternized with one of the women during that period, too.
    — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Lee strikes out in his initial attempts to connect, but Eugene gradually starts fraternizing with him at bars.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Known to fraternize with people at the edge of the water, Old Ben often begged for food and was said to be recognizable by the white spot and bump on his head.
    — oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2021
  • For many in the West, the idea of generals and admirals fraternizing with chief executives and other elites is the stuff of nightmares.
    — Elisabeth Braw, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
  • It was frowned upon to fraternize with opposing players during batting practice, so hugging them in the first inning would be totally out of the question.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
  • And Hamas, like the Nazis, saw anyone fraternizing with Jews as Jews by association.
    — Leo Pearlman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Last month’s unprecedented cease-fire by both sides had offered a rare glimpse of peace for Afghans during which militants fraternized with members of the security forces.
    — Rahim Faiez, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
  • Like going in spikes up at second base, opponents not fraternizing before games and starting pitchers who threw 200 innings every year.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • The concern of the Wings drafting Fudd There is a reason why so many places of employment have rules about co-workers fraternizing, or dating.
    — Mac Engel april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The 32-year-old fraternized with regulators, politicians, sports stars, and supermodels.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • At the Playboy Clubs, jackets were required in the dining room, and fraternizing with the bunnies was strictly prohibited.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
  • That’s a pretty damning critique, which must be in some way inspired by Strickland’s own experience with such institutions, where wealthy patrons get to fraternize with the artists.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The directive ordered Taliban fighters not to fight but also not to fraternize with Afghan national security forces.
    — Kathy Gannon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2020
  • Male and female interns were forbidden from fraternizing and got in trouble for going to Buffalo Wild Wings together.
    — Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
  • The Vain founders spent time fraternizing around another monument, the glowing M of the local McDonald’s sign.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
  • On the one hand, the studio was a rare haven for interracial collaboration, especially in the South where Blacks and whites rarely fraternized publicly in the late '50s.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 19 May 2024
  • This was, in fact, the first time that a young, semiunderground, and, by all accounts, cool designer has ever stepped in front of a Bravo TV camera to fraternize with the Housewives.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Luka Doncic didn’t make the cut because of injuries, leaving Jokic in search of other players to fraternize with during the Bay Area festivities.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025

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