Sentence examples for chance acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Eager to officially confirm the sighting, Mayr was able through a chance acquaintance to meet Professor Erwin Stresemann, a distinguished ornithologist in Berlin.

For them, Bruce Chatwin, though he could tease a story out of any chance acquaintance, was himself mysterious, hidden, and in that respect a disappointment.

As a youth Brougham planned to study surgery, but he went to London where a chance acquaintance led to his acting debut (July 1830) playing six parts in Tom and Jerry at the Tottenham Street Theatre.

After starting out as a warehouse party, Bassiani – meaning "one with the bass" – moved into the stadium in 2014 thanks to a chance acquaintance with the director of the national football team.

In 1916, her profile, sculpted by an artist who was a chance acquaintance, is said to have become the face of the dime, reigning there until she was replaced by F.D.R., in 1946.

Books he wrote which writer discusses include: "A Foregone Conclusion," "A Modern Instance," "Indian Summer," "The Rise of Silas Lapham,""Their Wedding Journey," "A Chance Acquaintance," "Suburban Sketches," "Venetian Life," "A Boy's 'Town," "My Literary Passions," "The Landlord at Lion's Head," and "A Hazard of New Fortunes".

Therefore, never reveal vacation plans to newspapers, trades people, strangers or chance acquaintances.

They are the kind of people known by their nicknames, even to chance acquaintances.

Inspired by a minor character in Chance Acquaintances, it could be about abandonment or the subconscious.

Boyle's narrative balances friends, mistresses, poets, scientists, academics, chance acquaintances and even officials and gardeners.

They had been preceded or were overlapped by the children of the writer George Macdonald, the sons of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and various other chance acquaintances.