Sentence examples for familiar told from inspiring English sources

MY wife just sat me down and in a calming way that is sure becoming familiar told me she was pregnant.

Wallace (one dare not call him MISter Shawn, yet Wally seems WAY too faMILiar) told us how he first went to Revolution Books as "a troubled young man in the nineteen-eighties," and once he had digested some of the inventory, he said, "I suppose I went from being confused to being … disturbed".

Virgin America has received takeover bids from JetBlue and Alaska Air as the U.S. budget airline backed by British billionaire Richard Branson explores a sale, a person familiar told Reuters last week.

The information Feinstein handed over could possibly be regarding a potential sexual misconduct case between Kavanaugh, now 53, and a female peer when they were in high school, two people familiar told the New York Times.

So the temptation is to stick to the safe, the bland and the familiar, telling ourselves that there's always next year.

He renders the familiar "tells" in the Book of Samuel with the more literal "bares the ear of," as when Saul, spear in hand, chastises his aides, "No one bares my ear when my son cuts [a covenant] with the son of Yishai".

"You know, you look familiar," she told him.

They wanted the locals to recognise it as something familiar," she told me.

From Oxford onwards, the story of her struggle to impose herself in a man's world is broadly familiar, but told with a new depth of detail.

It was a version of the familiar tale told by directors of bailed-out banks everywhere – we didn't see it coming.

"If someone is going down the list, they're gonna vote for somebody who is familiar," Wood told my colleague Charles Bethea.