Sample sentences for FRATERNIZE

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Definition

enjoy time together in a friendly way — especially when such a friendship is thought to be wrong

Our diplomats are told not to fraternize with prostitutes.

fraternize = enjoy time together in a friendly way

discourages managers from fraternizing with those who report to them
"His top advisers in the campaign are lobbyists," Obama told his traveling press, making no secret of his disdain for politicians who fraternize with influence brokers.
Time, 2008 -- http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1813602,00.html (retrieved 10/02/09)
comforting her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fraternizing with Humans.
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

fraternizing = enjoying time together in a friendly way

Is one friend forbidden to visit another, or a Musketeer of my company to fraternize with a Guard of Dessessart's company?
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
But for the moment people in very different walks of life were rubbing shoulders, fraternizing.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
He would have fraternized with obscure Hottentots.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Famous equality and fraternisation!
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use fraternization.)

So now I know I'm a materialist and I was fraternizing with the hay when you came out and stood by the woods, scared to death."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
She's in the other pannier of this horse, fraternizing with the man in charge.'
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
Dowley and I fraternized at once; I had had just such picked men, splendid fellows, under me in the Colt Arms Factory.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
This was done to prevent any fraternization with the political prisoners.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

They pay me to appraise, not fraternize.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
What happened to the rule of not fraternizing with the Daughters of Men?
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
Ron was obviously casting around for words strong enough to describe Hermione's crime, "fraternizing with the enemy, that's what you're doing!"
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"Because someone'll hear you been fraternizing with roustabouts and chuck you—or more likely these guys—off this thing," he says.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
It was as if they had climbed out of their opposing trenches and met to fraternize among the wires in No Man's Land.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
Frankly, though, I'd just as soon the officers and enlisted men didn't fraternize in the briefing room.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
It marked the first time the two groups fraternized together under official sanction.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

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