lifelong friend• At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend.• He likes his neighbors, but Arizona is too far from the ocean and too far from family and lifelong friends.• It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend.• The merchant was flushed with drink; he grinned at Cranston and Athelstan as if they were lifelong friends.• Alvin met the genialmasterpoet Langston Hughes, who became a lifelong friend and confidant.• The prosecutingattorney was a lifelong friend of both Wilfred and Mark.• Subsequently we became lifelong friends, sailed many miles together and shared many adventures.