Sentence examples for acquaintances point from inspiring English sources

I was born and raised in Flatbush, so when my friends, and even casual acquaintances, point out that I am "so Brooklyn" (usually after I pronounce coffee "cawfee"), I can say I agree, with even a hint of pride.

At the same time, some of my acquaintances pointed out, the nationalists shouldn't be demonized too much.

My acquaintance pointed out Osama's old bedroom window, on the ground floor.

As one Vietnamese acquaintance pointed out, "The Americans weren't here all that long".

Only after I had seen "Moonlight" for a third time — and only after a European acquaintance pointed it out to me — did I notice the almost complete absence of white people from the movie.

Arsenal fans of my acquaintance still point to their 1987 League Cup semi-final against Spurs when twice, once in the second leg and then again in the replay, they came back from behind to win 2-1, as the pivotal moments of their team's renaissance under George Graham.

"Criminals overwhelmingly obtain their guns from friends and acquaintances," Kopel points out.

"We grew up in the same town but we didn't really know each other, we were just acquaintances at that point," Ms. Freedman said.

He tolerated even the monk-official who used him, as the tradition was, as a passive sexual partner, because the monk also encouraged him to read and write.No other acquaintances saw any point in this.

At one point, acquaintances said, Mr. Tolstich roomed in a squalid ground floor apartment in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn with Boris Khurgin, a newspaperman described by former colleagues as a brilliant poet who drank himself to death at 48.

("Amazing how designer wear holds up," she tells an acquaintance at one point).