Sentence examples for acquaintance as from inspiring English sources

One critic said of an earlier edition that he had rarely enjoyed making any new acquaintance as much as he had enjoyed meeting Walter Scott in his own words.

They had been introduced by a mutual acquaintance; as Cilins understood it, Fox was working on behalf of a client who wanted to know how B.S.G.R. had secured the Simandou deal.

Too much awareness can lead to a great deal of irritation from your acquaintance as quickly as too little.

"I find myself compromised by our acquaintance as you are to be married to a Mingott".

The Auld Acquaintance, as it is known, was begun by Rory Stewart, the Conservative MP for Penrith and the Borders.

She recalls their acquaintance as fellow-students that past year at a Paris art school, the Academie Bashkirtseff.

Friends and former colleagues described Ms. Forrest — known as Kitty to close acquaintances — as decisive.

Newspaper ads for his bar invited "fine friends and acquaintances as well as the honorable musicians" and promised "a superb lunch," cooked by his wife, Caroline.

Legend has exaggerated the closeness of his ties with Molière, Nicholas Boileau, and Jean Racine, but he certainly numbered them among his friends and acquaintances, as well as La Rochefoucauld, Mme de Sévigné, Mme de La Fayette, and many less-well-remembered writers.

He defines social and consultative spaces as the spaces in which people feel comfortable conducting routine social interactions with acquaintances as well as strangers.

Public places in which people feel comfortable conducting routine social interactions with acquaintances as well as unfamiliar persons are crucial for every community.