Sentence examples for intimate acquaintance of from inspiring English sources

She has made the intimate acquaintance of one obliging oligarch after another.

Of course, fear has been an intimate acquaintance of nearly everyone in the subway at one time or another.

Let into the garden by Idleness, an intimate acquaintance of Sir Mirth, the lord of the garden, the Dreamer finds Mirth and his companions dancing, while Gladness sings, sitting next to the God of Love.

It acts as if the "you" out there is an intimate acquaintance of the narrator, someone to whom she can confide all sorts of private things, and it treats this "you" as if he or she were a specific individual, not merely a generic reader.

During their stay in Paris, the Jays – John had traveled with his wife – became intimate acquaintances of the Lafayettes, a friendship that would last well into the nineteenth century, and were feted by French aristocrats and officialdom (see John Jay to the Marquis de Lafayette, 3/5/1783, Jay ID #6759).

The Violence Policy Center reports that in 2013, of all women killed by men, 94% knew the perpetrator, and 62% were wives or intimate acquaintances of their killers.

Emotional closeness declines by around 15 percent a year in the absence of face-to-face contact, so that in five years someone can go from being an intimate acquaintance to the most distant outer layer of your 150 friends.

Will he or she be a more intimate acquaintance for viewers?

Because of Villa's popularity and intimate acquaintance with the terrain of northern Mexico, however, and because of the Mexican government's dislike of Pershing's presence on Mexican soil, it proved impossible to capture Villa.

As we can see, this third level requires singular knowledge and competence that can only be acquired by extensive, exhaustive study of the texts, their surrounding environment and, of course, intimate acquaintance with the classic and secular tradition of the Islamic sciences.

Mature students, after all, have come to a view about the value of a degree which may well be informed by intimate acquaintance with the world of work.