Sentence examples for friendly acquaintances from inspiring English sources

Friendliness does not equal friendship; in truth, most relationships are with friendly acquaintances.

They became friendly acquaintances and occasionally rode the elevator together, first in prams, then on tricycles and onward.

This suggests that envy might have played a role in the Quarterly confrontation, and yet in the preceding years the two men had been friendly acquaintances.

Even the ideological opposites Mr. Bauer and Mr. Bradley are friendly acquaintances, having met several times back in Mr. Bradley's Senate days.

David A. Cannon, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, has just one piece of advice for couples who want to buy vacation homes with friends or even friendly acquaintances.

The almost casual manner in which Wendla and Melchior move from friendly acquaintances to intimate, self-surprising young lovers is effectively drawn by Mr. Parrish and Ms. Socha.

He described a long and friendly acquaintance with the first President Bush and his wife, Barbara.

Roth and Bellow had developed something of a friendly acquaintance by the time "The Ghost Writer" was published, in 1979.

If you're a regular, you know the dealer, who has dealt to you for many hours over the months, and probably already have a friendly acquaintance with two or three of the players.

December 3, 1994 Chris Kraus, a 39-year-old experimental filmmaker and Sylvère Lotringer, a 56-year old college professor from New York, have dinner with Dick ___, a friendly acquaintance of Sylvère's, at a sushi bar in Pasadena.

Shortly after A View from a Hill appeared in the London Mercury in May 1925, MR James was contacted by the poet AE Housman, a friendly acquaintance and fellow Cambridge don.