Sentence examples for certain acquaintance from inspiring English sources

But he also manages to bestow redemption on a certain acquaintance.

Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson 307pp, Faber, £12.99 I have a certain acquaintance, and you do, too, don't you?

In one of his most famous aphorisms he asks: "When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?" And he tells how animals themselves form "a certain acquaintance with one another" and greet each other "with joy and demonstrations of goodwill".

After a particularly rotten date, a silly fight with one of my best friends, or maybe just one of those days when nothing seems to go my way, I tend to call a certain "acquaintance" who is more than happy to have me over for a few hours between the sheets.

I can therefore speak of it with a certain intimacy of acquaintance.

"You have certain co-workers, acquaintances, and whatnot, and it would be socially awkward if you added them on Facebook".

The prediction would be more likely caused by a combination of factors such as mutual interests, spatial presence at certain times, common acquaintances.

The vacuum is filled by the sadistic murder of Jed's acquaintance, a certain Michel Houellebecq.

Through acquaintance with certain Danish courtiers, he was named to accompany the mentally unstable Christian VII on a European tour (1768 69), a post that led to Struensee's appointment as court physician in 1769.

Thus we can only make an educated guess regarding whether modules cluster users around a certain topic or personal acquaintance (i.e. assuming homophily [47, 48]).

Malcolm Gladwell coins certain individuals who collect acquaintances "connectors".