Mates

We've been mates for years.

They want to choose their mates by their own will.

Her mates waited for her by the gate.

Miss Tanaka! You are living with gentlemen house mates! Please refrain from being pantless!

People, like peacocks, will never tire of displaying to friends and potential mates just how wonderful they are.

He never wanted to help his mates.

Many's the time my mates were so yarn-hungry they had me falling asleep in the middle of a tale, halfway through a sentence, between syllables.

We're soul mates.

Tom and I are soul mates.

Tom takes the bus to work if he's going to have a few drinks with his mates after work.