Sentence examples for an acquaintance was from inspiring English sources

A few years ago an acquaintance was killed by a bicyclist riding the wrong way down a Manhattan street.

Instead, as the weeks progressed, ISIS infiltrated both sides of the border, and I became enmeshed in the hostage crisis after an acquaintance was abducted.

A few Christmases ago, an acquaintance was startled to find Mr. Reynolds ringing the Salvation Army bell outside a Kroger supermarket near his home, soliciting dimes and quarters.

After an acquaintance was mugged, the apparent perpetrator, an African-American youngster, was promptly caught near the scene with the victim's belongings.

He campaigned for the legalisation of drugs and came perilously close to being investigated by the police when an acquaintance was jailed for manufacturing LSD (one of Crick's drugs of choice).

It opposed any gradation of rapes into more and less serious offences, claiming that rape by an acquaintance was likely to be just as traumatic as rape by a stranger.

Her notes on hotels and restaurants with which she has an acquaintance are excellent.

But an acquaintance is very different – she hated school yet left with a good amount of GCSEs.

The pain of realising that someone that you consider a "proper friend" actually has you down as an "acquaintance", is intense.

Two suspects hidden in the rubble were also arrested, while the man who lent the group the flat and an acquaintance were also detained.

To say, for instance, that an acquaintance is well preserved is a compliment, but it is also a way of noting that the person is older than oneself.