Sentence examples for a distant acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Do you accept?" If Bill is merely a distant acquaintance, and you decline, will it look like a snub?

It's curious a film so desperate to tell it like it is should have such a distant acquaintance with any sort of realism.

Her husband likes to tell a story about a distant acquaintance who was looking for a cheap rental car and introduced himself, very sincerely, to Mr. Ngom's co-workers as his brother.

"You gotta move cameras around, and ashtrays; and continuity is apparently an issue") when Jennifer Westfeldt, who was at that point a distant acquaintance of Hamm's, invited him to be in a play she was working on in New York.

A close friend, a distant acquaintance, or even a friend of a friend?

For instance, a message may be forwarded more rapidly if it came from a close friend rather than from a distant acquaintance.

In this case, though, the series feels more of a distant-acquaintance piece, illustrating how much the genre has changed in three decades.

We were celebrating in a hotel ballroom in Letchworth in Hertfordshire and I had struck up a conversation with distant acquaintance – a woman I had met only a few times before and have not met since.

Too many of my waking hours were spent fantasizing scenes in which Patrick and I somehow met outside the classroom and our relationship developed out of distant acquaintance into passionate amour.

If you want to get started, try this: list three people - one personal, one work, and one more distant acquaintance (either personal or work).

Friendster was all the rage in 2003 and my friend (read: distant acquaintance) Dave, went so far as to say, "Did you really just join?" As much as I enjoyed looking in on my heartthrob and memorizing his list of favorite movies, I didn't see what the big deal was with the site itself.