How to Use friendship in a Sentence

friendship

noun
  • They have enjoyed many years of friendship.
  • He was encouraged by the friendship his coworkers showed him.
  • Sounds like the friendship is still on.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That’s a long time to share a friendship!
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Our friendship and that song changed my life.
    — Jordan King shane Croucher john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Those decades long friendships are the best.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • Pope basked in their friendship.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2026
  • As the years went on, their friendship grew.
    — Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • And then there’s their friendship.
    — Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And just to have that kind of friendship that many years?
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Age-gap friendships aren’t just a one-way street.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Over the last few years, their friendship has grown stronger.
    — David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Even if these friendships feel forced at first, give them a chance.
    — Kells McPhillips, Fortune Well, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But none of that means that the friendship has to come to an end.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Swift and Gomez’s friendship goes way, way back.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Now, that friendship has made its way into the kitchen.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In the years that followed our friendship grew.
    — Beverly Gologorsky september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One of those friendships has been with her setter.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • No such script exists for a friendship breakup.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Their rides to school were short and their friendship shorter.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Watch the video above or read on for more great friendship stories!
    — Sarah Scanlan, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • So these five novels are a kind of canon for the friendship breakup.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What a righteous rock-star friendship this is.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
  • But through it all, the one constant has been their friendship.
    — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Their friendship can’t just be based on trauma.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This was more than just a simple cat friendship, though.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In your friendships with other artists, what is the through line?
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • This novel is full of friendship breakups, both past and present.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Take a look back at the celebrity friendships that go way, way back.
    — Essence, 7 June 2024
  • While working on the song, the two artists forged a deep friendship.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024

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