Sentence examples for acquaintance someone from inspiring English sources

Friends said that Mr. Kato had recently put an alarm system in his house and was killed by an acquaintance, someone who had been inside several times before and was seen by neighbors on Wednesday.

I have an acquaintance — someone I like but barely know — who spent what seemed to me to be an exorbitant amount of time doing absolutely nothing at all on the remote Italian island Pantelleria, photographing that nothing at all as though he were on sabbatical inside a Fellini film.

And 83% of these personal contacts were a vague friend, an acquaintance, someone they did not know well.

Participants were also asked to list all friends "for whom you have contact details and with whom you consider that you have some kind of personal relationship (friend; acquaintance; someone you might interact with on a regular basis at school, work, or university)." This section of the questionnaire had the heading "Friends," and this term is also used here.

I stared at this acquaintance -- someone who I had spent many nights in the past getting drunk with -- and felt like someone had punched me in the gut.

An Acquaintance is someone you're not so interested in sharing with.

The police said the suspect, Selwyn B. Days, 36, was an acquaintance of someone who knew Archie Harris, the homeowner.

"The Missing World" was inspired by a magazine article and by a passing acquaintance with someone who had experienced a memory loss.

All I know is that when I hear the news of a death of a friend or a family member or an acquaintance or someone I don't know, the day is a bit dimmer.

But it encompasses both the capturing of a girl against her will – either by an acquaintance or someone she's never met – and a form of elopement where the woman consents to the marriage but the couple find a way to bypass parental approval or avoid payment of the dowry.

If you are writing a personal confirmation letter, a letter to an acquaintance, or someone who you have a slightly more informal relationship with, you can be a bit more personable.