Sentence examples for because they were familiar from inspiring English sources
The collections were platitudinous because they were familiar.
Many Welshmen worked in the slate mines of western Vermont because they were familiar with this type of mining in their native land.
For the skaters' long program at the Olympics, Ms. Miller chose the "Violin Fantasy on Puccini's 'Turnadot' " because they were familiar with the opera's music and its characters.
The brigade's troops and officers adapted quickly to the new search location, probably because they were familiar with the territory, commanders said.
Some examples registered because they were familiar to me, some resonated even though they were not, reminding me how great writing is great because it delivers truths about the human condition.
The narrator of "Happy Accidents," one of the stories in this new collection from Jill McCorkle, describes herself as having "a lifelong habit of picking dead ends because they were familiar to me, not good, just familiar".
"I think maybe in government and the foreign policy elites they feel the lesser evil is still Barack Obama because they're familiar with him.
McSherry said that people engaged in wholesale commercial infringement wouldn't be fazed by the system because they are familiar with ways around the system.
"It's harder for them to get their arms around them, partly because they're familiar; they recognize them from their own time period," Mr. Fine explained.
They have learned that honesty is not the best policy, because they are familiar with the punitive nature of the existing system.
