For example, a person was 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1.5 kilometers was also happy.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

He told a friend: "I am satisfied that if the election were held now, nothing could prevent me from becoming president.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

But the researchers found that the influence of a friend of a friend of a friend can be greater than that.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

When we go to see a movie, my friend always makes a beeline for the place where they sell popcorn.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

As she told a friend once: "In a life that stopped guessing, you and I should not feel at home."

VOA: special.2010.07.18

After supper Paul asked his father if he could visit a friend to get some help with his arithmetic.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Yet the study found that having a friend who is lonely can add about seventeen days a year of loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The teacher wrote about him to a friend: "I have a student who will make his mark in music,if anybody will.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

When a friend is troubled by a mistake he has made, you might tell him to forget about it.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Sometimes,people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person's feelings.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

The former football star was accused of killing his ex-wife and a male friend of hers in Los Angeles.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

He had told a friend, "You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

No one accepted. Dean Fidelman is a professional rock climber who was a close friend of John Bachar.

VOA: special.2009.12.09