pal around with

phrasal verb

palled around with; palling around with; pals around with
informal, chiefly US
: to spend time with (someone) as a friend
She's been palling around with a girl she met at school.

Examples of pal around with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Marine, dressed in a Lululemon hoodie and Nike sneakers, palled around with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the former quarterback turned studio analyst for Amazon. Ben Strauss, Washington Post, 25 July 2024 People attending a university hockey match or football game might now see the county’s Otter mascot palling around with his new university friend Goldy the Gopher. Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024 In Fred Wilcox’s pace-setting flagship film, Lassie pals around with a young Roddy McDowall and takes a bite out of U.K. class tensions by rejecting her sale from her kindly blue-collar custodians to a haughty Duke. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024 Jennifer Tilly palling around with Sutton Stracke last season and in season 14, Tilly is officially joining the cast as a friend. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 23 May 2024 Amy Jade Winehouse could have been any young woman growing up in 1990s London — palling around with her mates, sneaking lagers, shagging dudes, getting into trouble, getting her nose pierced, and getting expelled from drama school for it. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024 In an era where too many politicians declare the press the enemy, someone who had palled around with a white supremacist group had gotten away with physically striking a reporter. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024 Sheldon Johnson, the ex-con who claimed to be a criminal justice reform activist and palled around with VIPs like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and podcaster Joe Rogan, pleaded not guilty to murder in a Bronx courtroom Tuesday before the judge ordered him held without bail. Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024 Depending upon your point of reference, most people know Terry Allen as the west Texas musician behind the conceptual outlaw country albums Juarez and Lubbock, or as the polymath multimedia artist who attended the Chouinard Art Institute and palled around with the Cool School. Michael Slenske, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024

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“Pal around with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pal%20around%20with. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.

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