Sentence examples for acquaintance by from inspiring English sources
"acquaintance by" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English
The phrase means to become acquainted with someone. Example: I was introduced to my boss Bob by an acquaintance of mine.
He remembers taking hold of his acquaintance by the arm and neck.
Roth and Bellow had developed something of a friendly acquaintance by the time "The Ghost Writer" was published, in 1979.
How bad is it to check Facebook in a head-mounted display so as not to offend an acquaintance by momentarily being unable to place him?
A splash of glamour is added when Sophia Loren, an acquaintance by way of the Geneva social circuit, christens M.S.C.'s new cruise ships.
Now she has chosen to renew that acquaintance by visiting Kate and her husband, Deeley (Mr. Sewell), in their remote, ocean-side house, and to revisit a past that they did or didn't share.
Cole proved spectacularly unlucky even by his own standards when saucy photos he'd taken of himself somehow ended up being sent to a topless model of his acquaintance by "a friend of a friend".
Indeed, as late as "Individuation by Acquaintance and by Stipulation" (1983c), he was rather dismissive of the idea.
Our parents were only acquaintances by then, having gone their separate ways after the weeks of forced intimacy.
"He surprised a wide swath of friends and even acquaintances by asking them what he should do," Isaacson writes.
"We played similar games, declared the most obscure objects treasure, and often puzzled friends and acquaintances by our indefinable devotion".
Mr. Blodget asked Facebook to develop new friendship levels that would let users sort their acquaintances by degree of separation.
