Sentence examples for acquaintance among from inspiring English sources

You must have a wide acquaintance among the astigmatic, haven't you, Freddie, dear?

He is survived by six sons, a large extended family, the people of Majmaa, the Mutayr tribe, and a vast and varied global acquaintance, among them American longtime friends.

After the war, she worked on and off as a waitress, took in boarders, and, as a favor to her friends — she had a wide acquaintance among the shadier elements of Lower Town society — occasionally performed abortions.

Conceived by Rabinovitch with the assistance of several authors of his acquaintance, among them Alice Munro and Mordecai Richler, the prize was intended to recognize the best Canadian novel or short story collection in English or in English translation in a given year.

In passing the dark silhouettes of trees, interspersed by the occasional white birch, one could appreciate anew why Thoreau wrote, "I frequently tramped 8 or 10 miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines".

The main obstacles for large scale application, beside the high first cost, are the lack of practical experience and acquaintance among architects, builders and planners with the design, control and operation of these systems.

The defense maintains that he supported friends and acquaintances among the terrorists while remaining ignorant of their plans.

Members of both groups had trained in mujahideen camps during the Afghan jihad, and Basit and Mohammed had acquaintances among them.

By 1656 Spinoza had already made acquaintances among members of the Collegiants, a religious group in Amsterdam that resisted any formal creed or practice.

There, in the underbrush, he found some of his charges of the Neighborhood Association, who had come there by his previous instructions, and saw many acquaintances, among them Father Kleinsorge and the other Catholics.

Mr. Motassadeq's accounts established a precarious defense in which he maintained that he supported close friends and acquaintances among the Sept. 11 hijackers, while remaining ignorant of their plans.