Sentence examples for acquaintance in a from inspiring English sources

A man was wounded by an acquaintance in a shooting at a home in Germantown, Md., early Monday.

He pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct in 1997 in an attack on a female acquaintance in a Buffalo hotel room.

She's attempting to recover from — or to hide from — a tangled romantic life and her guilt about an incident that left an acquaintance in a coma.

For example, what inspired Kimberly Lee Markey of York, Pa., two weeks ago to mail an envelope containing baby powder to an acquaintance in a nearby town?

The dramatic high point comes when Mr. Wilson leaps into the character of a man in one of his stories who fatally knifes an acquaintance in a bar.

How rare is this kind of murder? A. Most female victims are killed by partners or other family members, highlighting how rare such a murder – by an acquaintance, in a school, allegedly by a teenager – is among modern crime records.

People might call on a busy, important acquaintance in an emergency, like seeking a organ donor, but not for trivial matters.

The passer-by was identified by an acquaintance, in an interview at the scene, as Yaki Asahel, a settler from the southern Hebron district of the West Bank.

In 1712, a business acquaintance in Boston, an Englishman named Dred-Peacock, connected him to an English shipbuilder and a new but promising yard on the River Clyde, in Scotland, joined to England by the Act of Union, in '07.

They have been free for a year now, living as little more than acquaintances in a world flooded with possibilities.

The novels collected here follow the lives of a bunch of acquaintances in a very strange place, usually pursued by demons.