Sentence examples for a certain acquaintance from inspiring English sources

But he also manages to bestow redemption on a certain acquaintance.

Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson 307pp, Faber, £12.99 I have a certain acquaintance, and you do, too, don't you?

In one of his most famous aphorisms he asks: "When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?" And he tells how animals themselves form "a certain acquaintance with one another" and greet each other "with joy and demonstrations of goodwill".

After a particularly rotten date, a silly fight with one of my best friends, or maybe just one of those days when nothing seems to go my way, I tend to call a certain "acquaintance" who is more than happy to have me over for a few hours between the sheets.

I can therefore speak of it with a certain intimacy of acquaintance.

The vacuum is filled by the sadistic murder of Jed's acquaintance, a certain Michel Houellebecq.

Thus we can only make an educated guess regarding whether modules cluster users around a certain topic or personal acquaintance (i.e. assuming homophily [47, 48]).

Or a certain yellow Labrador of his acquaintance, whose family allowed their 6-year-old to saddle with the moniker Freckles.

Based on our study, we conclude that if there is no prior acquaintance with a certain package and preference is given to a frequentist approach, the following packages are to be recommended: MLwiN ([R]IGLS), the R package lme4 and the SAS procedure GLIMMIX.

Although Mr. Nash's acquaintances reserve a certain wry fondness for him in their filmed reminiscences, they are blunt about his early arrogance.

Still, he did leave his writing, which, along with the recollections of his friends and acquaintances, provides a certain amount of insight into his medical history.