Sentence examples for acquaintance this from inspiring English sources

For all the scope of his travel and acquaintance, this volume has a hermetic quality.

I doubt Kate has been completely straightforward about her reasons for suddenly agreeing to join the case, and given Jane Akers was far more than simply an acquaintance, this could be a problem.

Should the subject be a familiar acquaintance, this may not work.

Kohn modestly estimates that he's made around 40 friends or business acquaintances this way, but the true number is likely much higher.

Once I had shared my experience with most of my acquaintances, this attention began to diminish.

Once I had shared my experience with most of my acquaintances, this attention began to diminish and I felt even more alone.

However, public displays of affection are a fundamental part of the Italian tradition, and they shouldn't be exported: forget warm hugs with friends and a kiss-on-the-cheek with acquaintances; this is not an international greeting, believe it or not.

I don't have nearly as broad an acquaintance with this stuff as I should have to sound off this way.

My success last year with this dandy zinnia was a wake-up call to renew my acquaintance with this old garden reliable.

(At Yale, Mr. Angleton helped found a poetry magazine in which he published Ezra Pound, a family acquaintance.) This attempted seduction parallels a rather more comical one involving Angelina Jolie, who plays Margaret Russell, the sister of another Yale student.

I first made the acquaintance of this odd couple in high school.