Sentence examples for acquaintance set from inspiring English sources

A mutual acquaintance set up a meeting with a business developer, Mark A. Bush, that turned into an all-night conversation about technology and opportunity.

It was only when an acquaintance set up a small publishing house, the Galley Beggar Press, that the novel saw the light of day.

Mark Scott, vice president for marketing at HomeBanc, a mortgage company in Atlanta, recalls how an out-of-work business acquaintance set up a breakfast appointment with him, then arrived 30 minutes late and split the check with him.

Let your friend set you up with a mutual acquaintance or even set up an online dating profile.

In the predawn hours the next day, Booth and an accomplice, David Herold, arrived at the Maryland home of Samuel Mudd, an acquaintance, who set Booth's broken leg and allowed him to rest at his home before he set out for Virginia, where he was shot to death by a Union soldier.

Turning to a new acquaintance before setting off on his journey, he sought some reassurance.

"I was still modeling, and an acquaintance of mine set us up.

But Mr. Manton knows that with a nod or shake of his leonine head of gray hair, he can still grant or dash the political aspirations of that young upstart in Woodside, that faithful journeyman in Queens Village, and, perhaps, that longtime acquaintance with sights set on Gracie Mansion.

Nevertheless, they still have considerable pre-reflective currency, and for all its oddness, Augustine's suggestion that learning is a matter of being reminded of prior acts of direct acquaintance rests upon a set of common sense assumptions.

She told acquaintances that she had set the fire, and the Department of Agriculture was tipped off in January, Mr. Ivey said.

Though she had spent the ensuing months hooking up with various acquaintances, her hopes were set on long-term monogamy.