Sentence examples for acquaintance as a from inspiring English sources

He had built up his vast acquaintance as a popular bachelor fond of singing Schubert Lieder after musical dinner parties in his Avenue Montaigne flat.

"But you know I didn't mean it like that!" someone once responded when I questioned her description of a mutual acquaintance as "a fucking psycho nutter".

Mr Bhayani, of Wembley, northwest London, and described by an acquaintance as a "mad Indian gambler", could have first met Ms Waugh after he responded to her advert as an escort, the court heard.

It was only later, when I saw the films, that I made her acquaintance as a ballerina and realized that, though a life like hers cleaves into "before" and "after," her personality was continuous.

Its supporters claim that it doesn't say what it says, or, even if it did, that the government would be careful and discreet — that the N.S.A. would never, say, go after an American without a warrant by using a foreign acquaintance as a straw target.

In an account she gave through the charity, she described how accepting a casual acquaintance as a contact on a social network led to a stream of attacks.

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.

But interviews with dozens of current and former business associates, hedge fund investors, Wall Street executives and personal acquaintances, as well as an examination of the regulatory record associated with Mr. Cohen's 34 years of Wall Street trading, paint a complex portrait.

Paulsen didn't know a word of Spanish at the time, and the two used an acquaintance as an interpreter.

Ford has said she was 15 when she encountered a 17-year-old Kavanaugh, whom she knew as a "friendly acquaintance," at a party in suburban Maryland.

For though a score of Mr. Babbitt's may look at first glance like a presumptive demand, full of awkward rhythmic turns, extreme oscillations of line and erratic dynamic markings, longer acquaintance reveals it as a set of proposals, even questions.