Sentence examples for acquaintance more from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ricci, who is dyslexic, paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 to read textbooks onto audiotapes.

(Muhly has a gift for acquaintance: "More people have met me than have heard what I do, and I am working to change that," he says).

More than half of female rape victims had been raped by an intimate partner, according to the study, and 40 percent had been raped by an acquaintance; more than half of men who had been raped said the assailant was an acquaintance.

And numerous cast changes meant that I kept returning (four times in all) to the director Terry Johnson's Broadway-bound version of "La Cage Aux Folles," where would one could compare and contrast leading men while admiring each time the creative empathy afforded a show that London hadn't much liked on first acquaintance more than 20 years ago.

(For many of us, family members are more entitled than friends, and friends more entitled than acquaintances, and acquaintances more than strangers, and so on).

In a straw poll of around two dozen of my acquaintances, more than half of whom have what might be termed an obsessive devotion to popular music, I could not find a single person, even among the three Beatles fanatics, who placed Sgt Pepper in their top five albums of all time.

But these networks are not always accessible at all hours, and there is also the fact some may balk at asking new acquaintances more delicate questions.

Maybe acquaintances, more like.

Still, my fresh acquaintance wanted more.

My main social challenge, as I saw it, was to figure out how to postpone this assessment until I could provide a new acquaintance with more information.

Over there at the defense table sat John Fox, 20, a friend since age 7 or 8, and Anthony Fortunato, 21, an acquaintance of more recent vintage.