Sentence examples for acquaintance comes from inspiring English sources

That's where my acquaintance comes from, and I confess that I feared a whole evening of Mr. Black's splenetic seething might be a little toxic.

As I ponder this tension between us, a story that she told me early in our acquaintance comes back to me with special weight.

Old acquaintance comes under siege in Paul Rudnick's "Regrets Only," a chiffon-thin play in which a married socialite and a gay fashion designer are forced to question their longtime relationship.

Such disconcerting double vision, which sometimes occurs when a long-absent old acquaintance comes into view, may well blur your eyes as you watch a perfectly (and affectingly) cast Karen Allen in "A Summer Day," the Norwegian dramatist Jon Fosse's haunted play about time and stasis at the Cherry Lane Theater.

The call from an acquaintance came at just the right time in Bill Holroyd's life.

Acquaintance came upon him on Centre St., sitting on mudguard of parked car, watching police squad fix loosened overhead sign.

He said he had planned to walk to a mall, but when an acquaintance came by to tell him about the collapse, he decided to have a look.

"Our acquaintance came from arguing over car spaces in back of the building," said Mr. Michôd, who spoke by phone on Tuesday.

Aqela, the child of her husband's second wife, was 14 when a female acquaintance came seeking her hand for a man named Abdullah.

Ginette Ngarbaye was doing the laundry at home with her cousin when an acquaintance came by the house on his motorbike.

An acquaintance came to his Upper East Side apartment every afternoon to read aloud to him: "Even though I knew it was coming, we barely lived through the amputation of Anatole's leg.