Sentence examples for acquaintances is small from inspiring English sources

When the number of acquaintances is small relative to the population size, we find that a change in the innovation rate contributes more than a proportional change in population size to the cumulative cultural evolution of skill level.

This time our new acquaintance was a small family who lived about an hour outside Ulaanbaatar in a small encampment of horses, sheep, and the traditional Ger habitat.

Grant was small and quiet -- he looked like a "slouchy little subaltern," according to one acquaintance; another called him "a man who could remain silent in several languages".

Both are "small" by the limitations they place upon their inhabitants, but also because they make people live within restricted circles of acquaintance.

A few miles north of downtown Asheville, in a small white farmhouse surrounded by trees, two of Katz's acquaintances were doing their best to emulate early man.

The acquaintances were not injured.

Casual acquaintances were struck by his innocence.

Not all his acquaintances were so lucky.

Instead my female acquaintances were overwhelmingly positive.

Other famous acquaintances were even more elaborate.

Childhood acquaintances were there.