(1) Now, the term compadre, or its abbreviated form pare, is normally used in address to indicate intimacy and equality.

(2) Ken, compadre, I admire the colloquial style.

(3) For there's Condi and Dick, my old compadre, talking to me about some oil-rich Saudi, but soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home.

(4) Pumpaa, my corpulent compadre , it's the crunchy ones that make the meal.

(5) My mother listened and immediately sought the doctor's support. "Imagine, Compadre, " she said, "he wants to be a writer. "