If you are going out with your girlfriend,or boyfriend, you do not want another friend to go along on your date.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

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

It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Or,that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon,or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

Rande Janus says people come into his wine store looking for macarons after they taste them at a friend's house or a party or a wedding.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Her most recent children's book is called "Friend or Fiend?

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Tom Sawyer's good friend is Huckleberry,or "Huck." Finn.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

"The prime minister is leading Greece through challenging times, but as I told him during our meeting in the Oval Office today, whether in good times or in bad times, the people of Greece will always have a friend and a partner in the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31