Sentence examples for acquaintance seeking from inspiring English sources

A well-intentioned acquaintance, seeking to render his murderous bigotry harmless, has persuaded him to believe the superstitious falsehood that the most efficient way to destroy Paraguayans is to obtain a Paraguayan flag and stick pins in it.

One day a nice guy, an acquaintance, sought my counsel about a new car he just bought.

VISITING friends in Boston over the weekend, I promised out nearly all of my apartment's empty floor space to acquaintances seeking a place to stay on Barack Obama's inauguration day.

Fashion leaders are key sources of information in interpersonal communication; their friends, family, and other social acquaintances seek their opinion when considering purchase of fashion products (Vernette 2004).

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

He wasn't above being nasty himself, though – he once wreaked revenge on some former acquaintances by seeking out their girlfriends and having sex with every one of them.

An acquaintance, Stuart Plank, sought to build on Bugg's enterprise and approached Military Bowl officials about buying the land.

So they relied on female relatives or acquaintances to seek out young prospects and make the approach.

A question about how to pick priorities in light of the city's dismal proficiency rates in state tests — 54 percent math, and 42 percent in English — led to a riff about lackluster cover letters she has received from the children of acquaintances who were seeking internships.

For the sons, the fact that they were not nursed enough, I believe, is reflected by how many of the men in our circle of acquaintances are incessantly seeking feminine affection (often tripping up in the 'serial lover' trap, and subsequently in the 'infidelity' one) and basically seeking that security they were denied during infancy.

Next day, still seething from the insult, Ripley is visited by an uncouth gangster acquaintance (Ray Winstone as Reeves) seeking help for a little assassination project.