Sentence examples for In my acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Everyone in my acquaintance knows about my A level.

He waited for a moment — genuinely apprehensive, I thought, for the first time in my acquaintance with him — and then a huge smile, almost a big-lug smile, broke across his face.

Then, like everyone else in my acquaintance, I sip my champagne, and unlike almost anyone, slip away quietly into a taxi, to be home and in bed well before quarter to 1.

The party took place early in my acquaintance with Salle, and this fragment of conversation was a sort of overture to talks I later had with him about his sense of himself as a bad boy of art and about his inability to stop picking at the sore of his own bad reviews.

The New Yorker, June 24 , 1933P. 21 I was never so shocked in my life as when I saw Herman Kemmerborn, for he was the one man in my acquaintance who, I supposed, would be riding in glory all through the depression.

By Philip Curtis and Harold Ross The New Yorker, June 24 , 1933P. 21 I was never so shocked in my life as when I saw Herman Kemmerborn, for he was the one man in my acquaintance who, I supposed, would be riding in glory all through the depression.

In all my acquaintance with city men I know not more than half a dozen who can stand drinking sweet things.

In my slight acquaintance with him, I have always found him genial but cagey.

But she clearly got what was so maddening about the "1% Wives" recently pilloried in a piece in The Atlantic by my acquaintance Elizabeth Wurtzel.

"But," he added, "most politicians of my acquaintance, in all parties, are people of integrity".

One medium-sized housing association of my acquaintance in the south-east will see almost £250m knocked off its income over the next 30 years as a result of this change.