Sentence examples for had no acquaintance from inspiring English sources

They had no acquaintance with the substance being refined.

None of this made sense at the time; I had no acquaintance with melancholy, let alone abysmal depths.

There were normal things he had no acquaintance with, like the whole idea of enjoying a meal in the company of others.

He spoke everyone's language and had no acquaintances, only friends.

He was without funds, had no acquaintances in this country, did not know the language, and suffered from defective vision which harassed him all his life, and made sad his last years, when he was compelled practically to retire from active work.

My Vietnamese friends had no acquaintances among its million or so inhabitants and barely knew the streets, which look just like Saigon's, only different: Chinese characters supplement the Roman Vietnamese script on signs; roast pigs and ducks hang in restaurant display cases; and the roads are lined with the low, balconied colonial-era shop houses on which the Lover's father made his fortune.

The remaining twelve subjects were gender-matched controls who had no acquaintances among the individuals in the database.

Finally, there may be viruses that we have no acquaintance with as yet.

The two had no more than a passing acquaintance.

In a 30-year-long project carried out on deaf children in America and Taiwan, whose parents can hear normally, she has shown that this is true.Even deaf children who have no deaf acquaintances use signs as words.

The crystal was given to her as a casual gift by an acquaintance; it has no sentimental value.